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I'd like to see a designated 'Address' field for the app builder. One that would somehow automatically ask all the standard address questions:
Street Address
City, State, Country
Zip Code
I'd also like to see a phone number field as well that would put phone numbers into standard formats. Maybe one of the field settings would be 'country' so that app would know what format to use.
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To expound on this, the current phone number field requires the dashes to be in place to be 'long' enough for it to recognize it as a phone number. We should have a phone number field that is country specific and, in the case of a US number, you simply input 10 digits and it outputs the proper format automatically. This has been around for quite a bit in several platforms.
The phone number piece of this is somewhat related to this (to me the address piece of this falls into the same train of thought - data validation / conditional formatting, etc)
https://help.gocanvas.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000172668
And this
https://help.gocanvas.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000658488-Validate-Phone-Number-Field
I would add that when a phone number field is requested from the user by the app, the phone number unique keypad (on iphone for example) comes up instead of the entire keyboard.
In addition, I would make the address fields able to be lined up adjacent to each other without creating a whole new column in PDF designer.
For example, you currently have to put City, State and Zip Code as three separate fields in App Builder. To make them show in normal address format on PDF designer:
Name
Street Address
City, State, Zip
You would have to create three separate columns next to each other for City State and Zip to line up adjacent to each other.
It would be great if App Builder had a standard address input and PDF designer output it as one box (in usual format) in the PDF.
Hi Christopher,
Thanks for your feedback! In your first comment, are you referring to desired functionality or functionality you currently experience? I ask because the Android GoCanvas app already pops up the number keyboard instead of the entire keyboard. We're implementing the same experience for iOS soon.
To your second point, great thinking! We are in the midst of conceptualizing something along those lines, actually. Good to hear that this is something you'd find useful.
Thanks,
Siobhan
HI Siobhan -
I use iOS, so currently the full keyboard pops up when in use. Many apps utilize a "telephone-like" input keys. I would like to see Canvas apps do the same. Good to hear that's on the way.
It would be great if the address blocks are input separately (so you can use drop downs, or make calculations based on the inputs - like sales tax based on zip code) - but allowed the PDF output to appear in the "normal" address format.
Thank you
Chris
It sure is, and very soon! I'll update you as soon as it's live.
This is great feedback about the address blocks. I'll relay it to the Product Team on your behalf. Thanks again, Christopher!
All the best,
Siobhan
Have you seen the Navigation feature? a field with name "address" automatically generates a button on your mobile device that opens you satnav.
Would be superb if a field namned "Phone number" would automatically generate a button that would open your standard phone app and populate it with the number mentioned in the field. easy phone call to the dispatched client phone number.
To stretch it a bit more, Dial or Text button would be superb!
How about fields that are formatted as email address? wouldnt it be great to have that generate a button that opens an new email in you standard email app and auto populate the address from dispatch into the "to" field?