Lewis Hill
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| 09-25-2012 08:00 AM |
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Does Dynamic Registration Trim Username Spaces on Registration or Profile Update?
We are using Dynamic Registration for registration and profile updates and some users are unable to login. When I look at the database these users have no spaces in their username in the aspnet_users table but they do have spaces in the SRC_User table?
Any input on resolving this is appreciated.
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Ryan Bakerink
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| 09-25-2012 08:19 AM |
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Hello Lewis,
I would recommend using a Regular Expression on your username field, the following regular expression ensures that spaces aren't acceptable:
^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{6,12}$
To enable a Regular Expression you can go Manage the UserName question -> Question validation and enable Regular Expression and provide the Regular Expression I placed above.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Ryan |
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Lewis Hill
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| 09-25-2012 12:29 PM |
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Posted By Lewis Hill on 09-25-2012 02:29 PM
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for you help.
I did run into an issue testing this. When I try to register a user with a space at the beginning of the username, I get a validation error from the regular expression but when I remove the space, I still cannot submit the form -- the error message clears but returns on submit, I cannot register even with the space removed from the username or if I change the username completely?
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Ryan Bakerink
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| 09-26-2012 04:45 AM |
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Hello Lewis, I believe the Regular Expression I gave you was correct. Anytime you find a regular expression that you'd like to use, I would recommend testing it at this site: http://www.regular-expressions.info...ample.html Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Ryan |
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Ryan Bakerink
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| 09-26-2012 04:53 AM |
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I would recommend placing the Form in Debug mode and walking through the submission of the form to see if you can get any hint as to why this isn't working.
Also if you have FireFox and FireBug I would enable this to see if there are any JavaScript conflicts.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Ryan |
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Lewis Hill
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| 09-26-2012 09:59 AM |
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Ryan,
Thanks for your suggestions. The regular expression approach should work to address this issue however. The regular expression looks like it prevents a user from inadvertently adding spaces at the beginning of their user name but when I remove the space from my test user, the validation message remains and I still cannot register.
If I reload a clean registration and try to register a user without spaces in their username this regular expression blocks the registration. Adding this regular expression seems to block registration all together?
I was looking at www.regular-expressions.info/examples.html (the Trimming Whitespace example) yesterday. I did not see any JavaScript errors in Firefox or Chrome but I will look into JavaScript conflicts.
Thanks again for your suggestions.
Lewis |
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Ryan Bakerink
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| 09-27-2012 01:20 PM |
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Hello Lewis,
If the regular expression isn't working for you, perhaps trying a snippet of JavaScript that will fire in the ON Client side section of the UserName question??
The JavaScript will fire upon losing focus on the UserName field, technically tabbing out of this field. So after the provided value you can use a simple replace and remove any spaces, maybe this JavaScript will point you in the right direction.
Assuming your UserName field's shortfield name is "UserName".
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var UserNameProvided = $(UserName);
var UserNameNoSpaces =TheUserNameValue.replace(" ","");
$(UserName) = UserNameNoSpaces;
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This JavaScript would go under the Manage UserName Question -> Advanced Question options -> Client Side Event(Textarea box that accepts JavaScript).
Let me know if this helps.
Thanks,
Ryan
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Lewis Hill
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| 09-27-2012 03:20 PM |
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Hi Ryan,
Thanks for the information on the client JavaScript… I will try this.
Also, I tested the regular expression on a clean registration page with a standard Dynamic Registration form and the regular expression worked fine.
Our actual registration form does have other JavaScript and there must be a JavaScript conflict. Thanks for the help and I will look into this more.
Lewis |
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Ryan Bakerink
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| 09-28-2012 03:52 AM |
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Hello Lewis,
Yes it sounds like there is a JavaScript conflict on your Registration form against the Regex.
Let me know how everything goes for you, my best interest is invested in knowing that you have resolved this issue.
Thanks,
Ryan
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Lewis Hill
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| 10-08-2012 07:54 AM |
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Hi Ryan,
Thank you for your messages and support. I am back from a conference and taking another look at this.
To eliminate any potential conflicts I have a clean page… only the Dynamic Registration module using the initial wizard with the DNN required fields. I have tried a number of approaches without success.
Regular Expression
^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{6,12}$
Client Side Event
var UserNameProvided = $(UserName);
var UserNameNoSpaces =TheUserNameValue.replace(" ","");
$(UserName) = UserNameNoSpaces;
JavaScript
onblur="this.value = this.value.replace(/(^\s*)|(\s*$)|(^\n*)|(\n*$)/g, '');"
Do you have this working on a registration form you can export?
Or can you look at my dev registration form?
Thanks,
Lew |
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Lewis Hill
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| 10-10-2012 06:42 AM |
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Ryan,
I was able to get the regular expression working on my test registration page; the regular expression you provided does prevent a user from entering spaces in their username. Don’t know why it did not work before… cashing or I did not have it set correctly?
I could not get the profile update working with the regular expression so I will did not enable the “user can change their username.”
I know you may be at the DNN World Conference which I could not make this year because of our International Conference this week.
Thanks for all your help on this.
Lew |
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Ryan Bakerink
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| 10-10-2012 10:02 AM |
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Hello Lewis, Great to hear that this now working for you. It could've been a Cache issue, however, it's now working and that's all that matters  I decided not to attend the DNN World Conference this year regarding personal reasons. I'll most likely attend next year. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Ryan |
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