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Improve error message seen when 'Name' field validation fails #1526

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abibroom opened this issue Sep 14, 2016 · 3 comments
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Improve error message seen when 'Name' field validation fails #1526

abibroom opened this issue Sep 14, 2016 · 3 comments
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abibroom commented Sep 14, 2016

[Was "'Name' field no longer allows an email address to be entered"]

Result of #1514?

Councils often want to post updates on reports using their general contact email address in the 'name' field (example). Users also sometimes enter their email address as their name.

Two possible fixes.

  1. Revert and allow email addresses again.
  2. If disallowing them is intended behaviour (I'm fine with this!) the error message needs to be more helpful - it doesn't say what's actually wrong with the data that's been entered, which is causing confusion.

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dracos commented Sep 14, 2016

After db research, will go with 2 :)

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Email today from a user confused by the error message: they'd put just a first name, not a full name. In this case the message does actually make sense and describe what's wrong, but as it's new behaviour, it's not what regulars used to putting a single name are expecting - could be worth bolding 'full name'?

@abibroom abibroom changed the title 'Name' field no longer allows an email address to be entered Improve error message seen when 'Name' field validation fails Sep 19, 2016
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dracos commented Sep 22, 2016

Hopefully bit better now.

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