Is this another new (unannounced) release?! [Screen Shot 2020-09-17 at 7.59.42 PM]

Because selfishly, the app I’ve been developing on Glide this year has desperately needed it. And doesn’t need AR. And I thought that would be a snarky, hyperbolic way of saying that. :wink:

Makes sense :slightly_smiling_face: Sometimes with feature releases I miss use cases, either provided in the opening topic or in the comments. Admittedly I lack imagination here (though the release is nice for sure!). Use cases min length Make mandatory Min length may be a validation method (va…

I need it to limit characters for usernames, post titles, and post text. Anywhere we don’t have text wrapping, this will help display issues by limiting characters. SOOOO happy rn.

zipcodes…must be 5 char exactly Student_id…must be 6 char exactly state code…limit to 2 char emoji…limit to 1 char

Oh yeah, usernames for sure. Gone are the days of someone choosing a username like “a”.

@Mark When I have an optional field with min length 0, I am not able to submit the form with this field blank. I have to, therefore, set the min length to -1 to make it work. [image]

@david @Mark So. Just to add the icing to the cake :cupcake:. Why not “throw in” RegEx support for text fields? Just a simple, optional text value associated with a text field to hold the RegEx string. This would then be checked for match just like min / max. Then we could address all sorts of fie…

Why not just leave it blank for 0? Seems to submit fine if I do that.

🆕 Text entry min/max characters!

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John_Cabrera September 18, 2020, 1:58am 16

Probably the most familiar use case is the one that made Twitter a thing.

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🆕 Text entry min/max characters!

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