How do I Capitalize First Letter of Each Word of a Field?

[rhett1]

Is there a way that I can have an end-user enter a sentence into a normal string field and that each first letter of each word is made to be uppercase?

For example:

Risk no governance impacts the business.

TO:

Risk No Governance Impacts the Business.

[danielbilling]

Hi Rhett,

you need a write a script the identify each word and then call a function that set first position toUpperCase then the rest of the string set by toLowerCase

//Daniel

[poyntzj]

I was going to say - however you like, but...

you could put it into a Script Include and call it

I have seen one here at the current client and that is in a Client Script.

Client Scipt can mean more loading on the client, more processing, could be slow ?

Script Include is passing data back and forth and if that is a large chunk is that quicker than doing it client side ?

[rhett1]

Julian,

I appreciate what you have provided so far.   However, through much trial and error, I am still stumped on how to get this working.   If I were to go the path of a script include and client callable script, what would you recommend that look like?

[Robert Beeman]

If you are trying to call it from a client script, I would just include that function in the client script.

var myText = "text I want in title case";
var myTextInTitleCase = toTitleCase(myText);   // Result: "Text I Want In Title Case"

function toTitleCase(str) {
   return str.replace(/\w\S*/g, function(txt){return txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substr(1).toLowerCase();});
}

[rhett1]

Robert Beeman wrote:

If you are trying to call it from a client script, I would just include that function in the client script.

1. var myText = "text I want in title case";  
2. var myTextInTitleCase = toTitleCase(myText);   // Result: "Text I Want In Title Case"  
3.  
4. function toTitleCase(str) {  
5.   return str.replace(/\w\S*/g, function(txt){return txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substr(1).toLowerCase();});  
6. }  

var myText = "text I want in title case"; var myTextInTitleCase = toTitleCase(myText);   // Result: "Text I Want In Title Case"   function toTitleCase(str) {     return str.replace(/\w\S*/g, function(txt){return txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substr(1).toLowerCase();}); }

var myText = "text I want in title case"; var myTextInTitleCase = toTitleCase(myText);   // Result: "Text I Want In Title Case"   function toTitleCase(str) {     return str.replace(/\w\S*/g, function(txt){return txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substr(1).toLowerCase();}); }

Using both your input Robert and Julian's here is what I came up with that ultimately worked as a good client script:

function onChange(control, oldValue, newValue, isLoading, isTemplate) {
    if (isLoading || newValue == '') {
          return;
    }

    var myText = newValue;
    var myTextInTitleCase = toTitleCase(myText);
    g_form.setValue('risk_name',myTextInTitleCase);

    function toTitleCase(str) {
          return str.replace(/\w\S*/g, function(txt){return txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substr(1).toLowerCase();});
    }
}