Visual format - Length Restriction problem

I have a problem while using Visual format as an external editor in my code.

Below given is the snippet from code from one of the datacapture.cfg file that I have written
<item name='Asset_Long_Desc1'>
<label>Content Summary Text</label>
<description>Enter the summary text (1) for the content</description>
<database deploy-column='t' searchable='t' />
<textarea external-editor='visualformat' rows='8' cols='50' maxlength='512' required='f' external-editor-config='lillyconnect.xml' />

I have mentioned maxlength for the text area as 512 chars . But I am able to key in more that 512 Characters. It seems that Visual format is not restricting the length of text area to 512 chars.
Is there any way I can restrict the length to 512 chars . Is there any simple way to do that or Shall I have to use form APT to do the same.

Please help.

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Migrateduser

I believe there is a solution to this with regex.

caedmvtcau00001.pdf

Adam Stoller

Yes - you have to use a validation-regex (or perhaps FormAPI) to restrict the number of characters in a textarea as textarea's do not have a maxlength/maxsize attribute associated with them.

For a validation-regex - I believe there are some KB's on this site that can help.
For FormAPI - someone else will probably provide a solution.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

wdk_itrace_tool_1.0.zip

Migrateduser

You are probably better off with FormAPI because you can give the user a more useful error message.