Verify all email address fields
For ALL emails fields, student details, Parent Details, Emergency Contacts, Staff and TEACHERS:
Verify the validity of email address fields. As a Minimum:
Don't allow commas
Don't allow spaces
Don't allow special characters like !,$,%
Require a @ somewhere in the middle with text before and afterwards
We have a lot of our extracts with vendors crash every year because of bad data entered into any of the email address fields.
Greg Joiner
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Greg Joiner
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Very easy to implement the code, or at least throw a warning to the user.
Needs to be on ALL student, staff, parent, guardian, family, emergency pickup screens in both systems.
Also needs to be on the parent self-registration web portals
See the sample code at https://www[.]w3resource[.]com/javascript/form/email-validation.php that can be modified to the desired language if needed.