Metadata Regex Power Apps Portals Always matching

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Im currently encountering an issue with Power Apps portals whereby when I create a metadata record to perform field validation with Regex, I always hit that condition. Please see a screenshot of my metadata record with the regex

As we can see here I'm using the regex pattern /([0-9])/ to find any numbers in the following field.

This clearly shouldn't be matching thus we should be okay to proceed. Anyone ran into a similar issue?

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RE: Metadata Regex Power Apps Portals Always matching

You're a god among men. This is stupidly simple. I'll mark as the answer! Thank you for your help!
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cloflyMao 25,208 on at

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RE: Metadata Regex Power Apps Portals Always matching

Hi Ethan,

Sorry for misunderstanding your issue.

I have never expericenced using web form metedata record for validation and not really familar about regex.

However, from my latest test, it seems that the field will only allow field value which match regex.

(Definition from doc: The validation error message to display if the regular expression validated fails.)

e.g: your previous regex actually will only allow numbers in first name field,

if you would like to only allow english characters, we should instead use ^[A-Za-z]+$.

After changing regex the form works.

Of course, please click "Browse website" for refreshing.

Regards,

Clofly
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RE: Metadata Regex Power Apps Portals Always matching

I have tried configuring a metadata record for this before. However there is no JavaScript sitting on this step. Thank you for your example too. Does it successfully allow for the user to pass the step though if the input is valid?

That was my biggest issue, I can get the record to hit on a negative result. But the positive where it should allow the user to continue is the issue.

I'll try those actions and report back!
cloflyMao 25,208 on at

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RE: Metadata Regex Power Apps Portals Always matching

Hi Ethan,

Have you added other validation to the field?(e.g: custom javascript had been added for web form step.)

If not, you could take my web form metadata record as reference, which works well.

Required fields:

Regular validation:

Result:

In addition, have you ever run metadata validation for first name field previously?

Please open portal again via "Browse website" button in make.powerapps.com to refresh cache to make website configuration get update,

or restart your portal if above step not works.

Regards,

Clofly