Please note: If the phone number (input validation) field is being filled by anything other than user input (for example via LDAP sync), the number will be saved exactly as it arrives from the source. Nothing will be changed, no validation will happen.

This profile field can write back into your LDAP.

The phone number field with input validation is available since Linchpin User Profiles version 2.20.

The previously used field "Phone number without input validation" is deprecated. It still works in version 2.20, but will be eliminated in the near future. If you haven't changed anything by then, we will migrate the field contents automatically to the new field type.

In some cases you might not want that to happen. For example: Your users don't enter their complete phone numbers but only their extension numbers into this field. The new phone number field would mark these numbers as invalid. In that case, change the field type to a simple text field to avoid the automatic migration.