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lgaertner
lgaertner
Level 9
March 23, 2017
Declined

Custom fields - Validation of entered values

  • March 23, 2017
  • 8 replies
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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

    8 replies

    RandyRoberts
    Community Advisor
    RandyRobertsCommunity Advisor
    Community Advisor
    November 28, 2023

    @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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    matthewsherman25
    Level 1
    March 20, 2023

    Description - Add the ability to create validation rules (As a Sys Admin) using Regular Expressions or some other validation technology.

     

    Why is this feature important to you -  Ensures you are getting correctly typed data

     

    How would you like the feature to work - Whether the field is required or not, have a validation rule field that allows regex formulas to validate if the value entered is acceptable as a response.

     

    Current Behaviour - No validation other than required or not is available.

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      Jyo_Mohanraj
      Level 3
      July 6, 2021

      There are a few others Ideas related to this (I'm sure there are more than what I've pulled) - @jon_chen can we merge these?

      https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-ideas/custom-form-validation-instant-calculated-fields/idi-p/526482

       

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

       

      https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-ideas/field-validations-on-custom-native-forms/idi-p/529203


      It is high time we include field validation in Workfront we could restrict users from inputting certain type of data/numerals. It makes data governance easier if validations are in place.

        jon_chen
        Community Manager
        jon_chenCommunity Manager
        Community Manager
        December 4, 2023

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

        Vazgen_Babayan
        Adobe Employee
        Vazgen_BabayanAdobe Employee
        Adobe Employee
        December 19, 2023

        @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. 

        Vazgen_Babayan
        Adobe Employee
        Vazgen_BabayanAdobe Employee
        Adobe Employee
        January 10, 2024

        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. 

        RandyRoberts
        Community Advisor
        RandyRobertsCommunity Advisor
        Community Advisor
        January 10, 2024

        @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.

        K
        Adobe Employee
        KhachaturSeAdobe Employee
        Adobe Employee
        November 6, 2024

        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!

        Madalyn_Destafney
        Community Advisor
        Madalyn_DestafneyCommunity Advisor
        Community Advisor
        August 11, 2025

        @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... 

        If this helped you, please mark correct to help others : )
        RandyRoberts
        Community Advisor
        RandyRobertsCommunity Advisor
        Community Advisor
        August 11, 2025

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

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