Hi I have a requirement where users want to enter an email address fo

paulc919 over 9 years ago

Hi

I have a requirement where users want to enter an email address for a document to be emailed to. They also want to have a second entry to confirm that the email address typed matches that in the first email address box.

Is there a way of preventing pasted values from being entered into a text box ?

As an aside, does anyone know if there is a way to validate if an email address exists ? Reason for asking is that we are getting a lot of miskeyed / incorrect email addresses being used resulting in failed delivery messages.

Many thanks

Paul

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Stefan Helzle over 9 years ago +1
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Preventing a user from pasting text would need some special JavaScript. This is not supported. Email address validation is special topic. You can do that using regular expressions. Google will help you…

0 Stefan Helzle
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over 9 years ago

Some news from my side. Did a small test, sending an email to an invalid email address and as "From" I selected "Process". The error email was returned to the process instance and triggered my event.

So to sum it up: You can validate the address and handle returned error emails in a process. For example show the error to a user and let him modify the address.
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0 paulc919 over 9 years ago

I'm now picking this up and I've noticed the email validation routine seems to allow an @ as the last character which I would have thought is an invalid formatted email address ?
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0 Mike Schmitt
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over 9 years ago

@Paul: Per Marco's suggestion, you need to read the thread he linked starting from the later comments - are you using the revised version I posted to address that same issue? It was my second-last comment in the thread.
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0 Mike Schmitt
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over 9 years ago

(The version Stefan posted a few days ago was slightly outdated - here's the corrected version since you indicated previously that you have difficulty accessing Pastebin)
Email Validation.sail
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0 Stefan Helzle
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over 9 years ago

Sorry for that. Thanks a lot for sharing the code :-)
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0 paulc919 over 9 years ago

Thanks again all - very helpful ! :-)
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