How to Capture Phone Number Correctly?

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I’ve created a custom form for my site. I have a field for people to enter their phone numbers. I have set the input type to “Phone Number” However, the dataset is capturing it like this:


It’s removing the 0’s from the beginning of the number also. Is there anyway to save the data as the client is entering it and remove the commas?

Thanks in advance!

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hi Hanna,

Change the collection field to Text instead of Number. It should solve the issue.

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This does not work for me. Any other suggestions?

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It does it even though I changed the field to text. How can I fix it?

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Hi Stacy,

Notice that Ido said to change the “collection field”. He was referring to changing the field type in the collection area.

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After you have changed the field type, you’re not done yet. You will have to go through the existing records one-by-one and do the following. Maybe there is a quicker way to do it in the collection editor, but I haven’t seen it.

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Thank you so much! :slight_smile:

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Use a regular expression to validate the phone number input and ensure it matches the desired format.