Setting an Edit pattern does not allow inputting values

Question

I'm using a custom field (Phone Number North America) in a designer form. My users want to be able to edit and display value in [phone] format. So I set the Display and Edit formats to text{'('999')' 999-9999}. Setting this pattern only displays the value in this format, but when I go to edit the field for the first time (when the field is blank), it allows inputting without any format. And when I want to edit an inputted value in the field, it does not even allow to change anything. It seems to be readonly/locked.
What I want to be able to do is that the field must allow the user to input values in the format that I set in the Edit pattern box. This must work even if the field has a phone number value already in it.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
FYI...My Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES2 version is:  9.0.0.2.20101008.1.734229 Cipher: 128-bit.
Thanks in advance...

Answer 1

Hi Mahabub,
Keep the below script on exit event of the Phone Number dnt select any pattern for the field.
// Regular Expression for the phone number [phone]
var vPattern = /^(\(\d{3}\) \d{3}-\d{4})$/;
if (vPattern.test(this.rawValue))
app.alert("Matched");
else
app.alert("not matched")
This gives you Error message if the entered value is not matched with the pattern.
Please let me know if you need any more info.
Vjay