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MADink_Designs27
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Jan 13, 2020 1:55 PM UTC
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Add Integrated Phone Formatting with Javascript

Is there a way to set a text field format to special > phone using Javascript?

I'm trying to find something in the SDK, but haven't seen anything thus far in field properties or field methods...

I didn't know if there was syntax for setAction perhaps...

I know I could use regex, but the integrated phone format works perfectly for my needs.

I simply prefer to create a master script for the forms I develop and run it all from the script in the console.

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Thom Parker
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Thom ParkerCommunity Expert
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Jan 15, 2020 12:46 AM UTC

The Acrobat Formatting options are actually JavaScript functions, so if you like the phone format, then just copy what they've done. The name of the function is: AFSpecial_Format,

Just run this name in the Console window and it will display the function code. The input to this function is a number that indicates which format to use. Phone numbers are "2".

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    MADink_Designs27
    MADink_Designs27Author
    Inspiring
    Jan 15, 2020 6:30 PM UTC

    In the time between my original post and now, I had come up with using util.printx as per below:

    	this.getField("phone").setAction("Format",
		'if(!event.value||event.value == " ") {\n' +
			'event.value = "";\n' +
		'}\n' +
		'else {\n' +
			'event.value = util.printx(\"(999) 999-9999\", event.value);\n' +
		'}'
	);

     I tried running your code verbatim but realized that wasnt working, so I put it in a setAction and came up with:

    this.getField("phone").setAction("Format", "AFSpecial_Format(2)");

    Is that how you intended it? The only pitfall I'm running into is when I go into properties, it's adding it as a custom format script instead of the native phone format script. The caveat to that is it allows the user to enter extra characters instead of limiting anything but a digit and only allowing 10 numeric characters/phone formatting characters. It does hide all non-allowed characters once tabbed, however.

    Both of the scripts I came up with function the same way, but the AFSpecial_Format is one line instead of multiple lines of code.

     

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    MADink_Designs27
    MADink_Designs27Author
    Inspiring
    Jan 13, 2020 2:38 PM UTC

    This isn't exactly what I'm looking for, but I did find something about using the printx function and the following as an example:

       var v = "aaa14159697489zzz";
   v = util.printx("9 (999) 999-9999", v);
   console.println(v);

    I'm not sure exactly how to insert it, however. I tried using a setAction("Format", aboveCode); but that didn't seem to work. I'm not sure if I need the variable v at all...

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