How do I create a template for formatting phone numbers?

nekodan

I'd like to ensure that my phone number fields have consistent formatting, even if I don't enter them consistently. Is there a way to specify the desired format? (e.g., for US phone numbers (###) ###-####)

I would expect that templated formatting could be applied to other types of fields (e.g., date, month/year, URL).

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rickfillion

Hi @nekodan,

You can create Phone fields which will help somewhat, but not to the extent that you probably want. Unfortunately I can't think of anything we currently have that would enforce the specific formatting like that. It'd be a neat thing for to add one day though.

Rick

nekodan

Hi Rick,
Thanks for the response. It looks like there are a couple of good libraries to accomplish this, at least for phone numbers:

https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber (Java, JavaScript)
https://github.com/iziz/libPhoneNumber-iOS (iOS, probably macOS too)

Dan

Drew_AG

Thank you for the suggestion, @nekodan! I can't make any promises about if or when we might add something like that, but perhaps we can consider it for a future version.

If you need anything else, please let us know. Cheers! :)