Allow Uppercase Characters in Field Key Field [#842716]

Hi,

I use Webform to send The Data also to Salesforce as Lead after submit and sending the E-Mails.
Salesforce requires to have special Field Keys for Form Fields, those have to be in the Format like:

00N21230002PGSh

But at the moment i can not enter uppercase characters inside the field key form field while editing a form field. I have to enter them over phpmyadmin direct into the db table...

Why is this restriction, i see no problem to enter upper case characters as field key.... I don't know exactly if this is a bug or a feature... :)

Best Regards,
Sandro

Comment	File	Size	Author
#5	webform_field_key_uppercase.patch	1.76 KB	quicksketch
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Comment #1

quicksketch

he/him

CreditAttribution: quicksketch commented 1 July 2010 at 15:29

A lot of "machine_keys" are lower case only, such as node types and field names. The design pattern in Drupal 7 for entering these things also assumes lowercase keys. However I think we could allow upper case characters if the user manually adjusted the key. In both D6 and D7 we prepopulate the key value with lowercase and underscores, so most people should be able to avoid accidentally using uppercase. A lot of users don't know that PHP is case sensitive and it leads to a lot of headaches when theming.

Comment #2

vernond CreditAttribution: vernond commented 1 July 2010 at 20:30

Would it not be more expedient to add a bit of strtoupper code in your mail.tpl?

Oops: Just noticed that you have lowercase mixed in there as well...

Comment #3

feuillet CreditAttribution: feuillet commented 2 July 2010 at 11:08

However I think we could allow upper case characters if the user manually adjusted the key.

That would be nice. Maybe it would be more fool-proof if ther would be a checkbox like "allow upper case characters" or something underneath the custom key-form to toggle off the lowercase validation...

Comment #4

rhlowe CreditAttribution: rhlowe commented 3 December 2010 at 18:06

+1 Subscribing

Comment #5

quicksketch

he/him

CreditAttribution: quicksketch commented 30 December 2010 at 03:32

Title:	Allow Upercase Characters in Field Key Field	» Allow Uppercase Characters in Field Key Field
Version:	6.x-2.9	» 6.x-3.4
Status:	Active	» Fixed

File	Size
webform_field_key_uppercase.patch	1.76 KB

I've committed this patch to the 3.x branches to allow uppercase characters in the component names. Fields are still converted to lowercase by default but it can be manually adjusted if necessary.