Third part of international phone number parsing, validation and formatting for Smart Office

I just completed implementing international phone number parsing, validation and formatting for Accounts in Infor Customer Lifecycle Management (CLM) in Infor Smart Office. This complements my previous work on international phone number parsing, validation and formatting for M3 MForms like CRS610/E.

To implement the solution I used libphonenumber (C#), the known C# port of “Google’s phone number handling library, powering Android and more”, I used the Infor Smart Office SDK, and I did a lot of hacking CLM.

Here is the result for an invalid phone number:

Here is a phone number entered in various non-normalized formats before saving the Account:

Here are the resulting normalized phone numbers after having saved the Account:

Here is a video of the result (watch in full-screen HD for better viewing):

This solution works for saving new accounts and for updating existing accounts. From a development point of view, I had to respectively handle the event OnEntityBeforeSave for a modal dialog box and the event OnEntityBeforeUpdate for a dashboard task.

Note this solution will only apply to the CLM user interface in Smart Office and not to other CLM user interfaces like CLM Web client, it will not apply retro-actively to phone numbers previously stored in the database, and it will not apply to phone numbers eventually synchronized in the background server-to-server from other sources like CRS610; those scenarios would need to be handled separately.

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