What would be the best approach to manipulate the data entered by a user via a SearchTextBox. The basic use case is:
- User enters: AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF
- We apply client-side manipulation to convert a MAC address to any of the other possible formats such as AAAA.BBBB.CCCC upper/lower case
- Once we manipulate the data, this will be used to filter on a given table with primary key matching AAAA.BBBB.CCCC
The key above is to be able to convert the MAC address from any format to the one needed for filtering. However, the mechanism could be re-used towards any other data manipulation
Thank you.
Hi Rene, You could use a regex replace feature in Visio. [regexreplace:x,y,z] with x the regular expression, y the input and z the string that will replace each match.
So if 1234.5678.9ABC or 12:34:56:78:9A:BC or 123456789ABC should all become 12:34:56:78:9A:BC, you can use:
[RegexReplace:^(?<AA>\w\w)?(:|.)(?<BB>\w\w)?(:|.)(?<CC>\w\w)?(:|.)(?<DD>\w\w)?(:|.)(?<EE>\w\w)?(:|.)(?<FF>\w\w)$,12.34.56.78.9A.BC,${AA}:${BB}:${CC}:${DD}:${EE}:${FF}]
Of course instead of the example you will need to put the input/session variable.
You can use this regex to convert any MAC format to the AA:BB:CC:… format:
Pattern: ([A-Fa-f0-9]{2})([:-.]?)(?=[A-Fa-f0-9])
Substitution: $1:
You can test this out here: https://regex101.com/r/SH6nU7/1
Thank you for the response. To better illustrate the requirement:
Currently, we can only search for devices via a colon separated format, for example AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF, and we’d like this to work via any search format, upper/lower case, AAAA.BBBB.CCCC format, or no separators at all.