Plugin to validate more than 2 email addresses

[Ernst]

JIWA seems unable to validate more than one email addresses on debtor maintenance screen. Giving you the red error icon. (Perhaps because its written in that C..Stuff)

Customer tend to just ignore the red icon for this reason.

Attached plugin will validate more than one email address. In VB of course....

[Mike.Sheen]

Perhaps because its written in that C..Stuff

No, that's VB.Net.

I didn't like your messagebox method of alerting the user - so I took the liberty of making one (in VB.NET) to handle the semi-colon delimited email addresses and just set or clear the error provider already in place.

Plugin attached.

Plugin Debtor email address validation.xml

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On the topic of validating email addresses - this comes up all the time in the programming world and there is no sure-fire way of validating email addresses, other than attempting to send to the email address and seeing what the result is (which according to RFC 822 that can be up to 5 days of waiting before truly knowing if the email as successfully delivered).

There's a discussion along that lines over here on Whirlpool which I put my 2c into.

[Ernst]

Thats great thanks, will use your copy. Would be nice if JIWA could just validate more than one address for purely syntax errors, without the red icon.

[Mike.Sheen]

Thats great thanks, will use your copy. Would be nice if JIWA could just validate more than one address for purely syntax errors, without the red icon.

Well, technically the field is "Email Address" and not "Email Addresses" so a semi-colon isn't technically valid.

The better way to approach this is to have a list of email addresses that you can add to, edit and remove from.

[Ernst]

Tested New Plugin, with this in email address. And No error message. Still flashing red icon.

[email protected]; [email protected]

Same with this.

[email protected]; beth @jiwa.com.au

[Mike.Sheen]

Tested New Plugin, with this in email address. And No error message. Still flashing red icon.

[email protected]; [email protected]

Same with this.

[email protected]; beth @jiwa.com.au

It's the space after the semi-colon.

Either do a .Replace("; ", ";") or don't put the space in there.

[Ernst]

OK here is an updated version with an extra .trim, So it can handle some spaces.

[Ernst]

Just loaded this plugin for a customer on 7.021

It looks like the email validator, is working from the sales order also. As the sales order now has a red flasher next to the debtor.

When we drill down to debtor, the red flasher is gone.

Is it possible to extend the plugin to include the double email check on the sales order?

[Mike.Sheen]

Just loaded this plugin for a customer on 7.021

It looks like the email validator, is working from the sales order also. As the sales order now has a red flasher next to the debtor.

I think you'll find that's something else, not related. The plugin only registers an interest with the debtor maintenance form - so what you are seeing is likely from a different plugin.

On the flashing red icon on the sales order, hover your mouse over it and a tooltip will reveal more information.