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Validation

3min

With these features, you can bind rules to a certain block. Some of the validation types are Regular Expression, Date Specific Range, Allowed Characters in the Text block and a few default validation formats like email, mobile. You can also define your own validation. More details in help.

How to setup Validation for a block?

  • Select any product template and click on the Action button and select Manage Blocks from the drop-down.
  • From the Manage Blocks tab, click on the ‘Manage Properties’ link of any block.
  • In the Manage Properties screen, click on the ‘Add’ button from the top-right corner to add a property.
  • In the property drop-down, select ‘Validation’.
  • Set the block requirement.
  • Set the block format i.e. validation rules. There are predefined rules created by OnPrintShop.
  • Enter validation message to display at the front side.
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What are data validation formats?

There are seven predefined validation rules created:

  • Phone Number: allows only 10 numeric values.
  • Email: must contain a dot and ‘@’ symbol.
  • Username: (3 to 16 characters, numbers – and ‘_’ allowed.
  • Website: must contain www.
  • Only Numeric: Only Numeric values allowed.
  • Only Alphabet: Only Alphabets allowed.
  • Alphanumeric: both alphabets and numbers allowed.
  • Other: create your custom validation. Examples are shown in the below picture:
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