highlight a field red

[taddparris]

What would be the best approach to highlight a field red?   The goal is to have all required fields highlighted in red if they are blank or set at a default value.   I have tried using Field Styles with "

border-style: solid;

      border-color: #ff0000

This works but the style shows up on list view which is a little bit too much.   Would rather it just occur on the form and not list view.

Any thoughts?

[Michael Fry1]

If it's required for the future and only the submitter knows the answers, you better capture it up front. Then you don't have to go back!

[taddparris]

Makes sense in theory which is what we have tried to do.   We could customize the application process to do this but was looking for a simpler answer.   Having required fields filled out prior to know the scope or full details of the answer can lead to incorrect responses which is something we really want to avoid.  

[taddparris]

I appreciate your feedback and you are correct.   The application was developed before I came into this role and think the way it is designed causes issue like this.   The situation I am speaking about is a RFC once it goes from Submitted to Accepted the requester and/or implementer is supposed to capture the implementation steps, back out steps, and validation steps before it goes to Ready.   They shouldn't know the answer once it goes to Accepted it is something that is worked on while it is at that state.   However, to trigger the workflow to go to the next state it is not a button or a True/False box, it is triggered by closing a task.   Should be a button that says "Request Approvals" or something and you can't click until all mandatory fields are filled out.  

[Michael Fry1]

Exactly! I've been in those situations, but it's better to miss the deadline and do it right, than to still band-aid on top band-aid. The initial data should be captured, then the meat of the RFC, then submit for Approval once all the pieces are in place.

Seems like you could re-do this without to much grief and change in process? The results would be a smoother process.

[Michael Fry1]

Hard to tell what the right answer is, but you could build Record Producer, or Catalog item to capture 'required' data. That gets the request going. However, to move past that, more additional data, mandatory fields on the form, are required to get approval, move to ready to work or whatever it might be.