Feature request: Warn when an invalid URL is the social media fields #2130
Labels
data
Issue involves data management and analysis.
dev
Code Development
New Feature
P-Feature: Organization Form
Organization form completed and edited by volunteers
P-Feature: Volunteer Dashboard
Volunteer dashboard page
Priority - High
Production requires hotfix
Sprint 07
This is a pretty easy but high priority item. I noticed our current volunteers making this mistake often — we’re going to boost training here, but we should also help with error messages.
Context
Our database supports links to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. and our website requires these fields to be in a full URL format.
However, lately, our volunteers have been entering user handles instead of URLs.
Proposal
To ensure that we’re getting full URLs, let’s display an error when a URL field contains an improper URL.
These fields should start with http:// or https://
When the contents of these fields have something in them but does not validate as a URL, display an error:
“URL must start with http:// or https://“ with our standard field error message format (which I believe is currently small red text)
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