Earlier this month I posted an article about multi-value field problems. The good news is it’s been SPR’d – reference EGLN7YMLYD.
However, while looking into a fellow developer’s problems on this area, my mind wandered back to the XPages templates that have been developed by IBM, specifically the Discussion Template. Surely Tags (WebCategories field) is a multi-value field, does that have the same problem?
Answer, no.
The obvious next question – why?
After dissecting the differences between the two, reducing it to the most basic elements to reproduce the working functionality, and then add in the differences until it broke, I quickly identified the reason. The multi-value separator type. If it’s a comma, it works fine. If it’s a semi-colon, it breaks.
The comma works fine both for xp:inputText and xp:inputTextarea.
If only we could find a way to ensure users can ONLY enter a comma to separate values!
Comma works for xp:InputText when you save strings. It doesn’t work for number and date values. Tested in the demoapp I posted to be certain.
Hopefully they will fix this along with the bug with “custom” separator.
@Tommy Thanks for the info, it’s good to know.
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