How to remove leading and trailing spaces for a reference field for eg. Caller

[Tabassum Sulta1]

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to remove/trim the leading and trailing spaces on a reference field eg. Caller.

Use case:

 In the "Caller" field, if you have leading whitespace or trailing whitespace (say, from copy/paste function), it will fail to find the user. As a programmer, I always remove leading/trailing whitespace from user input to ensure proper matches in search routines. How can we achieve it on a reference field. Please help me out.

[Mike Patel]

You can use trim on onchange or celledit client script

refer to 

https://hajsoftutorial.com/trim/

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/java_string_trim.htm

[Ankur Bawiskar]

Hi,

the reference field is not where user can type in free form text so removing leading and trailing spaces doesn't make sense

Also if they want to populate value in there they need to give proper value or use lookup icon and then select the record

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[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Tabassum Sultana 

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[Ankur Bawiskar]

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