no spaces in content name

[boneill]

Hi All,

Is there any way to ensure that users do not enter spaces in the "Name" of the content they are creating when using a webform.  I would like to either prevent them from creating web pages with spaces in the page name or else replace the spaces with underscores "_".  Also is there any way of preventing them from using capitalisation for a web page name.

Regards

[marcus]

You can control the output of the renditions by changing the output path of the webform; you can use freemarker and some regular expression replacement techniques to replace the whitespace / other annoying characters.

Also, it might be better using hyphens as opposed to underscores; not sure if it's changed recently, but google at least still treats underscores as important characters, whereas dashes are treated for the most part as whitespace.

[boneill]

Hi Marcus,

I need to ensure that the xform file has no spaces in its name (ie xml with the values the user entered) not the renditions generated by transformations.  

you can use freemarker

.  Can you apply freemarker to the name of the xform file.  Have you any examples of this.

Thanks for your help.

[marcus]

The XML output name can be customised also, check the first step of the webform wizard. Something like

${name?lower_case?replace('[^a-z0-9.-_]+', '-', 'r')?replace('-+', '-', 'r')?replace('-+$', '', 'r')}.xml
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should do what you're after.

[boneill]

Marcus,

Thanks for that.  Will try it out today.  I hope that you had a good honeymoon.