🆕 Text entry min/max characters!

[John_Cabrera]

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

[sardamit]

It could work fine, but it should also work fine for a blank if the minimum is 0.

If the minimum is 0, and there is an issue with blank, I would assume that there would be an issue with a min of 1 and a single character submission too.

[Mark]

You’re right, we got the minimum wrong We’ll fix it. Thank you for noticing!

[Lucas_Pires]

@mark is it possible to add also in others entry components?

[Mark]

@Lucas_Pires

is it possible to add also in others entry components

Which ones?

[Lucas_Pires]

Number and phone would be interesting!

Use cases:

• Limit the length for people ID number (using text component people could entry a letter also)
• Limit the length for phone numbers (in different countries we see different number of characters for phone numbers)

[Jeff_Hager]

I think for numbers you could still set a technical length by setting your range from 1000000000 to 9999999999 in the case of US phone numbers.

[spencerb]

What’s an example of how you could use this feature?

[Deena]

Text entry min/max characters!

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

Text entry min/max characters!

Number and phone would be interesting! Use cases: Limit the length for people ID number (using text component people could entry a letter also) Limit the length for phone numbers (in different countries we see different number of characters for phone numbers)

Text entry min/max characters!

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.

[John_Cabrera]

Adding to @Deena’s examples…

Text entry min/max characters!

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

[Robert_Petitto]

I plan to use it for when students need to enter their ID numbers…has to be 5 chars exactly.

[Deena]

Error handling doesn’t work properly- doesn’t recognize when the minimum is met. I can’t use until this is fixed. No matter what minimum number is set, the field returns an error.

[kyleheney]

Is it possibly working on a “greater than” condition instead of greater than or equal to?

If you switch the first to 2 as the minimum and the 2nd to 12, does that fix your issue for now?

[sardamit]

Text entry min/max characters!

You’re right, we got the minimum wrong We’ll fix it. Thank you for noticing!

[Deena]

Thank you for the suggestion, but the error handling is the bigger issue. If I lower it to 2 min and the user types in username “no” - it gives the user feedback that 2 characters are required. It needs to be fixed properly by Glide so we can use it without creating a bad user experience.

[Deena]

Yes, I saw that - seems like it should be fixed by now. I don’t think it’s a complicated fix and waited a long time for this to roll out.

[kyleheney]

Ah okay I didn’t realize that hint text was supplied by Glide by default (I thought it was something you added — in which case you could leave it as is even after changing the back-end condition to 2 instead of 3).

Does the change to 2 “fix” it though? If so then it does seem like it should be a simple fix for the Glide guys!

[Deena]

Nope, unfortunately no matter what min it gives the error at that number. My point is that users will possibly choose two characters. Or one character etc. At that point I have to just remove the minimum. And as you pointed out, this is such a basic thing and should be easy to fix.

[Mark]

Fixed.

[Deena]