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.

Specific examples elude me at the moment in NWE, but in Classic we had cases where a user started a project without one of our templates, which menat without some custom forms that are required for various financial info and tracking.

Adding these forms after-the-fact did not seem to kick-off the filling out of the form.

Another example I just thought of: what if we need to make change to a custom form that requires a new custom field, and that field is mandatory? Having a way to force the field to be filled out would be very useful.