phone number char limited / admin to add new phone number

[Christian Loeper]

Hi Adam,

Operators are able to add a new phone number while setting an appointment.
I noticed that phone numbers characters is limited to 10 at the "add new phone number"-box, which is too little.
In addition admins, who edit appointments, are not able to add a new phone number - but they sould be.

Regards,
Christian

[Alex (ddrmoscow)]

Hi Christian,

You're right, phone mumbers are limited to 10 by default. (note that only digits are allowed )
 It's done to prevent submitting faulty numbers, as we might use autodial or 'callto' function and wrong number will lead to faulty connection.
Besides, in most countries the number of digits for phone number is fixed.
Additionally, it depends on your FreePbx outbond trunk and outgoing line prefixes settings too.

If you need to change this value - you can do by editing file appointment.php (row 197, parameter "maxlength")

* New numbers by admin* - this feature was not implemented yet, as far as i know, but think you're right, it' might be useful sometimes.

Alex

[Alex (ddrmoscow)]

Hi Christian,

Forgotten to mention: check also pattern="[0-9]{10}" parameter -> change {10} to be = {your new maxlenght value} .

(Or you can simply remove both parameters, if you don't need them, lol)

Alex

[Alex (ddrmoscow)]

Adam,

Maybe it'll good to set 'Number of digits in phone number' as a setting parameter and include it to the list of forecasted 'settings page'?

Alex

[Christian Loeper (christianloeper)]

Alex,
good point - still it could be set to 10 digits by default.

Adam,
thx for your help.

changing "maxlength" in appointment.php works, but pattern="[0-9] {new value}" requires exactly "new value" number of digits.
If i delete pattern="[0-9] {new value}" no form is accepted. In both cases an error tells me to keep default form.
Phonenumbers in germany have different lengths, so I need a range or no limits.

Christian

[Alex (ddrmoscow)]

Christian,

Didn't knew in germany you have different length.
 In this case , you might want to delete both parameters (maxlenght and pattern) to let it run with no limits.

Current ' pattern="[0-9]{10}" ' - means that input characters could be only numerical from 0 to 9 ant total number of charachers should be EXACTLY = 10.

In your case I'd suggest to set "maxlength"= maximal possible required phone lenght, and set 'pattern="[0-9]" ' ( without { }. = means it wount count charecters).

Alex

[Christian Loeper (christianloeper)]

Alex,

thanks for your response. Even after I deleted >pattern="[0 - 9] {20}"< completly, that error showed up.
It's already translated, in english it means "Keep the default form".

[Alex (ddrmoscow)]

Christian,

That's pretty strange.

Could you specify your quexs version ( revision) and range of values you need to input .

Alex

[Alex (ddrmoscow)]

Hi Christian,

Did you succeed with phone input filed parameters?

Alex

[Christian Loeper (christianloeper)]

Hi Alex,

yes i succeed but only by deleting 'pattern=[0-9]' and '{ }'.
Means that letters are allowed too. It's ok, but not the optimal solution.

I use Version 13.0.

Regards,
Chris

[Alex (ddrmoscow)]

Hi Christian,

Letters and symbols is definatelly not optimal.

I can suggest to set following parameters:
size="17" (15 for maximal numbers + 2 for arrows characters in some browsers, determines only visible field size),
 pattern="[0-9]{3,15} (only numbers, not less than 3 characters, not more than 15 characters)
maxlength - can be deleted (or set to 15 as in pattern expression.)

Additionally you can browse related information on "HTML5 input pattern" and "Regular Expression" to determine exact input behaviour .

Alex