Canned "Courses taught" field doesn't allow alpha chars in Course # box

[adrianbartel]

Unless copied and pasted in.

[loongchan]

Hi Adrian,
How many letters are there and what is the normal expected pattern? Is it letters only at the end? Is it ever more than one letter? are there any other possible patterns?
This will help make it much easier to implement the fix.

Thanks!
Loong

[adrianbartel]

Looking at a course listing such as this page https://courses.students.ubc.ca/cs/main?pname=subjarea&tname=subjareas&req=1&dept=EDCP suggests the course number can either be three digits or three digitals plus a letter. I wouldn’t rule out other patterns. The main thing I’ve seen is ddd[l]

From: loongchan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: November-21-13 2:49 PM
To: ubc/profile-cct
Cc: Bartel, Adrian
Subject: Re: [profile-cct] Canned "Courses taught" field doesn't allow alpha chars in Course # box (#2)

Hi Adrian,
How many letters are there and what is the normal expected pattern? Is it letters only at the end? Is it ever more than one letter? are there any other possible patterns?
This will help make it much easier to implement the fix.

Thanks!
Loong

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[loongchan]

Hi Adrian,
Thanks for that info! I had a look at the code and it shows that the reason that cut/paste works but not typing is because on each keypress, the field checks for valid inputs in a character by character basis using regular expressions. To resolve this issue, we can make it take only numbers and letters(upper and lower). Do you think that would be good?

[adrianbartel]

Sounds perfect.

From: loongchan [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: November-21-13 4:15 PM
To: ubc/profile-cct
Cc: Bartel, Adrian
Subject: Re: [profile-cct] Canned "Courses taught" field doesn't allow alpha chars in Course # box (#2)

Hi Adrian,
Thanks for that info! I had a look at the code and it shows that the reason that cut/paste works but not typing is because on each keypress, the field checks for valid inputs in a character by character basis using regular expressions. To resolve this issue, we can make it take only numbers and letters(upper and lower). Do you think that would be good?

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