https://help.powerschool.com/t5/Enrollment-Family-Support-Forum/Phone-number-formatting/m-p/521257#M6722 <P>As an end user of powerschool, I am not your middleware.<BR /><BR />If you, for whatever reason, feel you need dashes (-) between the area code, local prefix, and line number, great - that's on you, not the end user.&nbsp; I know how to read a phone number without dashes, I should not be required to enter an arbitrary separator for only your benefit.<BR /><BR />Whilst I fully appreciate the necessity of input validation, you - the system owner/developer/administrator - are the responsible party for that input validation.&nbsp; Please enable/instruct your web development team to adopt any of the decades-old, widely used best current practices for input validation and data formatting in a way that does not excessively inconvenience the end user.&nbsp;<BR /><BR /></P> Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:28:47 GMT stickney 2024-08-05T16:28:47Z https://help.powerschool.com/t5/Enrollment-Family-Support-Forum/Phone-number-formatting/m-p/521257#M6722 <P>As an end user of powerschool, I am not your middleware.<BR /><BR />If you, for whatever reason, feel you need dashes (-) between the area code, local prefix, and line number, great - that's on you, not the end user.&nbsp; I know how to read a phone number without dashes, I should not be required to enter an arbitrary separator for only your benefit.<BR /><BR />Whilst I fully appreciate the necessity of input validation, you - the system owner/developer/administrator - are the responsible party for that input validation.&nbsp; Please enable/instruct your web development team to adopt any of the decades-old, widely used best current practices for input validation and data formatting in a way that does not excessively inconvenience the end user.&nbsp;<BR /><BR /></P> Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:28:47 GMT https://help.powerschool.com/t5/Enrollment-Family-Support-Forum/Phone-number-formatting/m-p/521257#M6722 stickney 2024-08-05T16:28:47Z