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silasf799172
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January 8, 2025
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Handling Tab Characters in Appian Text Fields

  • January 8, 2025
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I conducted a test where I copied a tab character from Notepad and pasted it into an Appian text field. Appian recognizes the tab character as a special character rather than treating it as empty spaces.

How can I configure or validate this so that Appian treats tab characters as empty spaces? Any insight would be appreciated.

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stefanhelzle0001
stefanhelzle0001
Brainy
January 8, 2025

Can you somehow visualize this? Some Screenshots?

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silasf799172Author
Known Participant
January 8, 2025

In the "Objet" field, I performed the test mentioned above using the tab key, and it did not validate as empty as expected.

stefanhelzle0001
stefanhelzle0001
Brainy
January 8, 2025

Can you share the code of that validation?

Be aware that whether a TAB is considered empty or not, very much depends on the specific use case. So a general solution is not possible. But you can easily add your own save logic that removes any entered white space.

https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/24.4/fnc_evaluation_save.html

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