At Monday 3/10/2008 12:31 PM, Kenneth Crocker wrote:
>To all,
>
>
> We have a Custom Field called "Need-By Date". It is applied
> to only a
>few Queues. In order to ensure the format entered is consistent, I put
>the following "(?#Date)^\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{4}$" into the Validation field.
>The result is RT demands an entry as though it is a Mandatory Field. I
>only wanted the format to be mandatory so that IF it was entered, it
>would require the desired format. Any ideas on how to accomplish this?
>Thanks ahead of time.
>
>Kenn
>LBNL
Kenn,
Here's what we have for an optional date field (MM/DD/YY format):
'(?#Date-Optional
MM/DD/YY)^(((0)?[1-9]|1[0-2])\/((0)?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])\/([12][0-9])?[0-9][0-9])?$',
It's the final '?' that makes this optional - without it, the field
is mandatory.
Steve
Stephen Turner
Senior Programmer/Analyst - SAIS
MIT Information Services and Technology (IS&T)
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