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I suppose I should have said also that only numerical values are permitted.<br />
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It must remain a text field though.<br />
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Regards,<br />
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Darren
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Are you getting a validation error message when you tab out of the text field? Try using the same pattern for Display, validation, entry and data.
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eh?<br />
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I just want to be able to stop people being able to enter a decimal, as it appears even though the &quot;999..&quot; pattern is used to say &quot;only numbers please&quot; it's still counting the decimal stop as a number.<br />
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The decimal needs to be removed or not allowed. 
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Yes, I understand. And when I use the same pattern &quot;text{9999}&quot; for Display, Validation, Edit and Data, I get a validation error when I enter a decimal point. It only allows digits. So, to me this falls into the category of &quot;not allowed&quot;. 
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&quot;text{9999}&quot; ? I thought to only allow number it was just the characters 99999 you used. <br />
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I'll try out your method now<br />

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Which version of Designer are you using? I suspect it's not the latest (8.2). 
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version 8.0<br />
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It works but unfortunatley breaks the other field.<br />
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I'll tell you in more detail what I'm trying to do.<br />
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Basiclaly the field should only be able to receive: <br />
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12 numerical digits ie. 999999999999<br />
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or<br />
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12 with a plus before ie. &quot;+&quot;999999999999<br />
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or<br />
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12 with a minus before &nbsp;ie. &quot;-&quot;999999999999<br />
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Using your method does indeed stop the decimal being used, however then i am getting errors with the + and Minus which before seemed to work fine.<br />
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I've tried:<br />
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text{999999999999} | text{'+'999999999999} | text{'-'999999999999}<br />
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and also: text{999999999999} | '+'text{999999999999} | '-'text{999999999999}<br />
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But these dont seem to work. I'm sorry but I'm new to this.<br />
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I also have some code running on the validate as well (that was put in place b one of our devs) It looks like this: <br />
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&quot;+&quot; &amp;&amp;&nbsp;0 &lt;= this.rawValue &amp;&amp;&nbsp;this.rawValue &lt;=999999999999 or &quot;-&quot; &amp;&amp;&nbsp;0 &lt;= this.rawValue &amp;&amp;&nbsp;this.rawValue &lt;=999999999999 or 0 &lt;= this.rawValue &amp;&amp;&nbsp;this.rawValue &lt;=999999999999<br />
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So any ideas why it fails on the + or minus with the updates validate pattern field, but not with the old ones? It seems i can either have + and - working as validation but the user can enter &quot;.&quot; or the other way around.
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any update on this?<br />
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I really need help on this matter as am a beginner in this field.<br />
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Regards,<br />
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Daz
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Hi there,<br />
<br />
I have a text field in Livecycle and i want to disallow any alphabetical characters (i must keep it a text field).<br />
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For the validation pattern I have used the &quot;999999999&quot; system but decimals are still permitted.<br />
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How can i parse through the field at validation and stop decimals getting through, or stop being entered entirely?<br />
<br />
Regards,<br />
<br />
Darren
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Hi there,

I have a text field in Livecycle and i want to disallow any alphabetical characters (i must keep it a text field).

For the validation pattern I have used the "999999999" system but decimals are still permitted.

How can i parse through the field at validation and stop decimals getting through, or stop being entered entirely?

Regards,

Darren

dissallow / ban decimal (period) character in text field in Livecycle

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