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GrahamFox's avatar
GrahamFox
Community Member
14 years ago

Validating Text Entry Boxes

I don't think you can do this with Storyline, but is there anyway to do basic text box entry validation? I know how to make it look for a word regardless of case, but what about using wildcards or c...
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JamesEifler-b91's avatar
JamesEifler-b91
Community Member
8 years ago

Hi, just checking to see if validating a letter in a text entry is a feature yet in SL360...I can't seem to find it in v3.20.16814.0. If it's not; then are folks still using Javascript to accomplish this? How would this work? The user enters the text, SL passes it to javascript in a var, javascript checks its validity, then informs storyline yes, correct, take this action/ no, incorrect, try again?

Perhaps I should mention that I'd be using HTML5 output only.

Thanks!

  • JamesEifler-b91's avatar
    JamesEifler-b91
    Community Member
    8 years ago

    Update, I found out text entry screens in a Try mode demo convert to a question slide and then I can validate text from there. I had missed it.

  • AshleyT-Pollard's avatar
    AshleyT-Pollard
    Staff
    8 years ago

    Hi James,

    If you're using a standard text entry question type (like a fill in the blank) that'll validate as correct/incorrect based on what you set up in the question.

    If you need to do more than that, i.e. restricting the learner to only entering in X number of characters, or only using certain letters that'd be a great use of Javascript. I'll let you in the capable hands of our ELH community - as I wouldn't know where to begin!