Converting Text To Upper Case on Mobile Phone

​Hello,
Please if someone has successfully converted text such as First name to
Upper Case on the Mobile Phone as it is being typed I would be grateful to
learn from you.

For example, I have two Text Questions (FirstName and Surname) and I want
whatever I type on the phone into those text boxes to appear in Uppercase
on the phone as I am typing irrespective of whether the phone's keypad is
set to Caps or Lower case.

I tried upper-case(FirstName) and upper-case(Surname) but when I tried the
form in Cloud care it did not convert them.

On the same form, I have a Hidden Value question (Fullname) which has the
Calculate Expression: upper-case(concat(FirstName, " ", Surname)) and this
one works but I want the Individual fields to be converted so that it will
appear in the export as upper case.

Please help.
Yaw

Yaw,

As far as I know it is not possible to convert the letters in the text box
to upper case as you are typing them You can use the upper-case function to
convert that value to all capitals and save it to a hidden value; however,
the text box value itself will remain as it was entered.

You could also use a regular expression to enforce that the letters are
capital case in a validation condition; however, this would just prevent
the user from proceeding and not automatically convert the letters.

Cheers,
Will

··· On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:11 PM, YAW ANTWI-ADJEI wrote:

​Hello,
Please if someone has successfully converted text such as First name to
Upper Case on the Mobile Phone as it is being typed I would be grateful to
learn from you.

For example, I have two Text Questions (FirstName and Surname) and I want
whatever I type on the phone into those text boxes to appear in Uppercase
on the phone as I am typing irrespective of whether the phone's keypad is
set to Caps or Lower case.

I tried upper-case(FirstName) and upper-case(Surname) but when I tried the
form in Cloud care it did not convert them.

On the same form, I have a Hidden Value question (Fullname) which has the
Calculate Expression: upper-case(concat(FirstName, " ", Surname)) and this
one works but I want the Individual fields to be converted so that it will
appear in the export as upper case.

Please help.
Yaw

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Hi William,
Thank you very much.

Yaw

··· On 21 February 2017 at 09:00, William Pride wrote:

Yaw,

As far as I know it is not possible to convert the letters in the text box
to upper case as you are typing them You can use the upper-case function to
convert that value to all capitals and save it to a hidden value; however,
the text box value itself will remain as it was entered.

You could also use a regular expression to enforce that the letters are
capital case in a validation condition; however, this would just prevent
the user from proceeding and not automatically convert the letters.

Cheers,
Will

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:11 PM, YAW ANTWI-ADJEI yawantwiadjei@gmail.com wrote:

​Hello,
Please if someone has successfully converted text such as First name to
Upper Case on the Mobile Phone as it is being typed I would be grateful to
learn from you.

For example, I have two Text Questions (FirstName and Surname) and I want
whatever I type on the phone into those text boxes to appear in Uppercase
on the phone as I am typing irrespective of whether the phone's keypad is
set to Caps or Lower case.

I tried upper-case(FirstName) and upper-case(Surname) but when I tried
the form in Cloud care it did not convert them.

On the same form, I have a Hidden Value question (Fullname) which has the
Calculate Expression: upper-case(concat(FirstName, " ", Surname)) and this
one works but I want the Individual fields to be converted so that it will
appear in the export as upper case.

Please help.
Yaw

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Hello! I am wondering the same thing. Does anyone have another solution?

··· On Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 4:09:05 AM UTC-5, YAW ANTWI-ADJEI wrote: > > Hi William, > Thank you very much. > > Yaw > ​ > > On 21 February 2017 at 09:00, William Pride <wpr...@dimagi.com > wrote: > >> Yaw, >> >> As far as I know it is not possible to convert the letters in the text >> box to upper case as you are typing them You can use the upper-case >> function to convert that value to all capitals and save it to a hidden >> value; however, the text box value itself will remain as it was entered. >> >> You could also use a regular expression to enforce that the letters are >> capital case in a validation condition; however, this would just prevent >> the user from proceeding and not automatically convert the letters. >> >> Cheers, >> Will >> >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:11 PM, YAW ANTWI-ADJEI <yawant...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >>> ​Hello, >>> Please if someone has successfully converted text such as First name to >>> Upper Case on the Mobile Phone as it is being typed I would be grateful to >>> learn from you. >>> >>> For example, I have two Text Questions (FirstName and Surname) and I >>> want whatever I type on the phone into those text boxes to appear in >>> Uppercase on the phone as I am typing irrespective of whether the phone's >>> keypad is set to Caps or Lower case. >>> >>> I tried upper-case(FirstName) and upper-case(Surname) but when I tried >>> the form in Cloud care it did not convert them. >>> >>> On the same form, I have a Hidden Value question (Fullname) which has >>> the Calculate Expression: upper-case(concat(FirstName, " ", Surname)) and >>> this one works but I want the Individual fields to be converted so that it >>> will appear in the export as upper case. >>> >>> Please help. >>> Yaw >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "commcare-users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to commcare-user...@googlegroups.com . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "commcare-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to commcare-user...@googlegroups.com . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >