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lgaertner
lgaertner
Level 9
Mar 23, 2017 6:26 PM UTC
Declined

Custom fields - Validation of entered values

Description - Any validation possibilites for entered values into custom fields would be great.

 

Why is this feature important to you - At the moment there is no possibility to validate any entered values into fields. We cannot validate, if e.g. a valid email address, or url was entered, also for date fields it is not possible to define, e.g. that the allowed choices have to be after a specific date,...

 

How would you like the feature to work - RegEx would be fine

 

Current Behaviour - no validation

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    RandyRoberts
    Community Advisor
    RandyRobertsCommunity Advisor
    Community Advisor
    Nov 28, 2023 4:02 PM UTC

    @jon_chen Field validation has been on my wish list for years. It actually has a lot more traction and interest than is apparent. There are numerous "ideas" that would be solved by field validation that are separate and individual idea requests, each having only a handful of "likes". If they were aggregated together (as they should be), they would have quite a few "likes". Every coding and scripting language out there that engages forms has some form of validation, except Workfront's.

    Here are some recent examples, and there are MANY more (Search "field validation"):

    https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-ideas/enhance-date-field-in-custom-form/idi-p/530919

    https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-ideas/date-field-limitation/idi-p/611815

    https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-ideas/realtime-data-validation-in-custom-form/idi-p/530737

    https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-ideas/custom-forms-add-validation/idi-p/580737

    https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-ideas/validations-on-custom-forms/idi-p/617745

     

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    Rachel_Volis
    Rachel_Volis
    Level 2
    Apr 27, 2021 1:59 PM UTC

    Can the date field be enhanced to "gray out" certain dates so that people cannot select those dates?

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      K_Donkers
      Level 3
      Aug 18, 2022 6:03 PM UTC

      This is something we have wanted since we went live with Workfront. The specific criteria we need are:

      • Do not allow a customer to select date in the past
      • Gray out dates in non-standard turn times (example: if we require at least 6 days to complete the work then the customer cannot select a date within that 6 days, only a date after it)
      • When there are more than one calendar field, allow for settings of the second (or third, etc) field to be set to a date after. Tie to the previous field to set criteria. 
      • We need this to be customizable by form, so it can be set to each specific request type since they can be very different. 
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      jon_chen
      Community Manager
      jon_chenCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      Dec 4, 2023 9:20 PM UTC

      Hi @randyroberts Thanks for your message. I've merged the most popular ideas into this one since it is the most recently published idea.

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      Vazgen_Babayan
      Adobe Employee
      Vazgen_BabayanAdobe Employee
      Adobe Employee
      Dec 19, 2023 7:35 PM UTC

      @lgaertner Thank you for the submission! We think this is a good enhancement to the Workfront platform overall and this product area in particular!   Workfront currently prioritizes large-scale, foundational enhancements such as the new Reporting experience and changes to the core data model, so this item does not fit in our near-term roadmap. As such, I am marking this as Declined now, but we'll keep this in our backlog for the improvements for this area so that we can revisit the decision in the future. 

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      Vazgen_Babayan
      Adobe Employee
      Vazgen_BabayanAdobe Employee
      Adobe Employee
      Jan 10, 2024 11:02 AM UTC

      Thank you for the submission! We think this is a good enhancement to the Workfront platform overall and this product area in particular!

       

      Workfront currently prioritizes large-scale, foundational enhancements such as the new Reporting experience and changes to the core data model, so this item does not fit in our near-term roadmap. As such, I am marking this as Declined now, but we'll keep this in our backlog for the improvements for this area so that we can revisit the decision in the future. 

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      RandyRoberts
      Community Advisor
      RandyRobertsCommunity Advisor
      Community Advisor
      Jan 10, 2024 3:09 PM UTC

      @vazgen_babayan Is there a plan to get some sort of validation into the new reporting Canvas? I get that no one wants to add enhancements to the current reporting model if it's not going to be the future reporting platform, but validation is an essential tool for business in general. Every major "forms" platform out there has some sort of validation, except Workfront. IMO, this is a glaring ommission.

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      KhachaturSeAdobe Employee
      Adobe Employee
      Nov 6, 2024 12:31 PM UTC

      Hi everyone,

       

      Happy to announce that this is already a work in progress. We are working on conditional validation of fields, which will allow you to define certain conditions (character limit, format validation, regex, etc.) and define validation error messages when those conditions are met.

       

      This is something that will come early next year.

       

      Thanks again for the idea!

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      Madalyn_Destafney
      Community Advisor
      Madalyn_DestafneyCommunity Advisor
      Community Advisor
      Aug 11, 2025 3:43 PM UTC

      @jon_chen I think you could mark this delivered now with validation released earlier this year? I do wish it was easier to use but it's something... 

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      If this helped you, please mark correct to help others : )
      RandyRoberts
      Community Advisor
      RandyRobertsCommunity Advisor
      Community Advisor
      Aug 11, 2025 4:55 PM UTC

      Agreed Madalyn, it's not a complete solution and not easy to use but at least it's something.

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