Setting alpha fields to uppercase

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pkabus
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    I want to set all the text fields for a number of forms to force them to be uppercase. Does anyone know of a way you can do this either globally, or else in the source section?

    John Henley
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      You have to do it via the form definition for each form. However, the problem with that is that technically it's a modification, so you have to be prepared to have it overwritten by future CTPs and MSPs, and keep re-applying it. One way to mitigate it (although you introduce a different set of issues) would be to use Design Studio to perform that logic.
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      pkabus
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        Sorry, John. This is the design studio forum so I didn't bother to note that I am using design studio but should have. I need to find a way in design studio to note that all the alpha fields on the form are uppercase. If there's a way to do that for the form as a whole that's great, otherwise is there a way in the source to set the field as uppercase?

        John Henley
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          Gotcha. What I was implying was that it's *REALLY* easy to implement uppercase if you modify the back-end COBOL form, but there is the drawback of it being a modification.
          For Design Studio, there are a couple of ways:
          1. In the form XML, you can add the ed="upper" attribute to desired fields.

          2. You can also add JavaScript (I would do it in the FORM_OnBeforeTransaction) like this (using CU01 as a example):
          function FORM_OnBeforeTransaction(fc)
          {
          if (fc=="A" || fc=="C")
          {
          lawForm.setDataValue("CUC-DESCRIPTION",lawForm.getDataValue("CUC-DESCRIPTION").toUpperCase())
          lawForm.setFormValue("text2",lawForm.getFormValue("text2").toUpperCase())
          }
          return true;
          }

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          pkabus
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            Perfect - that was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!