This feature allows you to format the phone numbers your clients insert into your site.
Highlights of this feature:
The base site wide controls to use, require, editable…etc are within the following admin tool:
LISTING SETUP > FIELD TO USE
Below is a screenshot:
Within that screenshot you'll see:
and of course there is the same within any category specific field configurations.
Look to the following settings in your admin tool:
SITE SETUP > BROWSING SETTINGS > PHONE NUMBER GROUPING SITE SETUP > BROWSING SETTINGS > PHONE NUMBER FORMATTING
We'll use the US phone formatting as an example. US phone number have an area code, exchange number and number within that exchange and is formatted by default (in the past….but that seems to be changing fast) to:
(234) 567-1111
and to get that formatting you would set the group PHONE NUMBER GROUPING to "3 3 4" and set the PHONE NUMBER FORMATTING configuration to "(123) 123-1234" from that dropdown. So the client would only need to insert "2345671111" and the phone number will display as above.
If the phone number has it's own formatting inserted by the client in any form the above formatting will not be applied. That mean in the above example if the client inserted "2345671111" then "(234) 567-1111" will display in the listing details page but if they inserted any formatting at all in the number…possibly any of the following:
The formatting set within the admin tool would not be applied. Basically anything besides and "unbroken" number will not have formatting applied to it.
The default listing details templates are:
The tags to place phone data within those templates are: