• Log on as designer
• In the Administration menu
• Click on Field type

The list displays all existing types on the platform:

• Digital
• Phone
• Email
• …Etc.

It is not recommended to change these basic types.
It is best to create new external type.
Click the Create button.

In this form:

• Enter a unique code to identify the external type
• Enter a regular expression (java syntax)
• or Enter a Java method name to call to validate the field (method code of the object), this use is reserved for a control that does not fit with a standard regular expression.
• Select a module

Exercise:

Create an external type for the customer code to force a 6 numbers or letters in upper case:

• Type name = CLIENT_CODE
• Expression = ^[0-9A-Z]{6}$

Once created, change all the fields which must respect this format:

• Open the field
• Defines its type to Validated text
• Select the name of the field type in the Validation type
• Modify other properties such as min and max length of the field

Exercise:

• Open the field cliCode
• Change its type using the external type code CLIENT_CODE
• Set its min and max size to 6

After clearing the cache, test your new type by entering a wrong format and save, a valid format and save

Exercise:

• Create New Customer
• Enter a code containing invalid characters (dash, accent, lowercase …)
• Check that a user message appears at the end of the input field (control of the browser)
• Check that even forcing a “Save”, the server also returns the error to the user.