Prevent Task from Being Marked as Complete If Required Fields on Custom Form Attached to the Task Are Blank

@Jeremy Flores‚

I thought I heard something somewhere about Workfront being interested in doing some type of form field validation. Like If you have an email field it would check to make sure it included one or more characters followed by an @ symbol followed by more characters followed by a dot followed by a few more characters.

I can't remember where I heard it though, or maybe it was a suggestion in the innovation lab.

Either way, it's a really good feature to have.

Edited to add: This is probably what I was remembering:

https://one.workfront.com/s/idea/0870z000000PSEhAAO/detail

Back to the original post, Workfront already does this on a project level. If a required project field isn't populated, you can't open the project. I think doing this in reverse (can't complete it) with a task is worthwhile. Although it shouldn't prevent you from marking the task as something that equates with complete (CPL), like waived or cancelled.

I'd like to get your perspective after having run this in the NWE. The functionality works differently in the new Workfront experience than it does today in Classic. For example, you can't add a custom form to a project or task in NWE without filling out the required field. I can see how this can create some challenges, and although we are talking about two different use-cases (not being able to attach a form unless a required field is populated vs. not being able to complete a task or project unless a required field is populated) I believe they are very closely related.