Email Validation in the Candidate Registration Process

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Email Validation in the Candidate Registration Process

GOAL:

Using iRecruitment, job seekers can visit an enterprise's job site, search for jobs, refer

jobs to other individuals, and add jobs to a temporary job basket. They can self-register

in iRecruitment to submit job applications to vacancies, by providing some personal

information such as First Name, Last Name, Email Address and Password. When an

external visitor registers, iRecruitment creates an Oracle HRMS user with the E-mail

address as the username and assigns the iRecruitment External Candidate, responsibility

to them.

During the self-registration process, the candidate might unknowingly enter invalid

characters in the Email address field, which might disallow the candidate from reentering

or logging into iRecruitment at a later point of time. Also, the candidate might miss some

important communication from the companys recruitersor hiring mangers. To eliminate

these kinds of mistakes and enable candidates to take corrective actions, customer might

want to validate the email address that candidates enter by displaying error messages and

prompting candidates to correct the email address.

By default, the Email address entered by the candidate is not validated to check for

correctness. This document explains how additional validations can be built in

iRecruitment: Candidate Registration process, if restrictions or validations are to be

applied on the Email Address field. For example, if the candidate has entered an invalid

email address, i.e., without the @ symbol or with multiple @ symbols, or a space

character etc, customers might want to display an error message.

Similarly, customers might want to display an error message when the candidate enters

an Email ID that includes the companys domain name for example: vision.com, as

employees are recommended to use the iRecruitment Employee Candidate

Responsibility, instead of the External Site: IrcVisitor.jsp.


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This document explains how validation can be achieved using Oracle Applications

Framework (OAF) extension technique.

SOLUTION:

Using the Oracle Applications Framework extension (Controller Object (CO) extension)

technique, an error message can be displayed if the candidate enters some invalid

characters and clicks the Submit button on the Candidate Registration page.

This document covers some of the additional validations that can be built in iRecruitment

on the Email Address field, for some of the common mistakes encountered while entering

the email address in the candidates self-registration process.

As an example, we will see how validations can be built when the Email Address:

1. Contains, companys domain name for example: vision.com.2. Does not contain @ symbol3. Contains more than one @ symbols4. Contains spaces5. Starts with WWW or @ or .character.

Based on the customers requirements, other validations can also be developed similarly.


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For performing CO extension, follow these steps:

1. Make a note of the CO being used on this page:

/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/RegisterCO in our case

2. Extend the Controller ObjectLets name the new CO as RegisterValidateEmailCO

3. Override the processFormRequest method to check for the conditionrequired.

If the condition is true, then the system should display an error message If the condition is false, the registration process can continue as per the

existing functionality.


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The condition should check if the Email Address entered, contains spacesor does not include a @ symbol, or includes > 1 @ symbol or starts

with www or . or , character etc.

Validation logic:i. First, to check if the Email Address includes the word: Domain name i.e.,

vision the following logic can be used.

ii. Next, to check if the Email Address includes at least one @ symbol, thefollowing logic can be used:

iii.

To check if the Email Address includes more than one @ symbols, thefollowing logic can be used:

iv. To check if the Email Address includes white spaces, the following logic can beused:


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v. To check if the Email Address starts with either www or @ or . or spacesthe following logic can be used:

This is how the Controller Object will look when all the above validation logicis built.


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4. Through personalization, change the controller class in the following PG:/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisRegisterPG

Enter the fully qualified class name. For example, if the extended class is namedas RegisterValidateEmailCO, then the fully qualified name of the class that you

need to entered in the personalization is:

com.customer.irc.candidateManagement.webui.RegisterValidateEmailCO


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After performing the above steps, you will observe that an error message is

displayed for the validations that are configured:

1. When the Email Address includes the word vision

The following error message is displayed:


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2. When the Email Address does not include @symbol



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3. When the Email Address includes multiple @ symbols



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4. When the Email Address includes white spaces



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5. When the Email Address entered starts with: www, @ or, .



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Email Validation in the Candidate Registration Process

August 2010

Author: Sarma Balantrapu

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