How to Make field mandatory with business rule and UI action ?

[RudhraKAM]

HI , I have a requirement to make due date mandatory when state changes to submitted , I am trying to implement this with Business rule and UI action , can you please help me with this 

Business rule: what should i write in advance script ?

 

UI action : up on clicking the UI action the due date will be mandatory and if due date is provided then it should submit and change state to submitted.

[Sam Dey1]

Hi kam,

To make a field mandatory the best solution would be implement - UI Policies and Data Policies. 

UI Policies - work on client/browser level

Data Policies - work on the Server level

So you can make a UI Policy - where condition would be same as the condition you were setting up in BR and UI Action, i.e. - State Changes to Submitted

Then inside the UI Policy you would get a related list to create a UI POlicy Action 

Click on "New"

and select "Due Date" - Mandatory Column to True.

Same goes for Data Policy.

That should work. 

Cheers,

Sam

[RudhraKAM]

This is a special requirement long story short we need br and UI action to make it mandatory 

[Sam Dey1 · Accepted solution]

Hi kam,

Unfortunately there is no way to make a field mandatory through BR. 

But you can do so through UI Actions and Data Policies (or only Data Polices)

So your UI action requires some minor changes - 

So if you want to make a UI Action with Client - checked then you would have to do something similar as I did to run both client and server script. 
As you can see on line 2, I was initially set the assigned to mandatory but that wont be required as well if you use Data Policy. 

This will ensure that in anyway whenever the state changes to In-progress (for mine example) the Assigned To will be made mandatory. 

So you can use both in combination - UI Action and Data Policy or Just the Data Policy. Unfortunately there is no BR method to implement the same. 

Cheers,

Sam 

[The SN Nerd]

You can "enforce the population" of a field via Business Rules, but you cannot make it mandatory, ie preventing the user from leaving the UI via a Business Rule.