Validation rules verify record data meets the standards you specify before the record can be saved.
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Unable to detect the System Admin in a validation rule error condition formula
I have a business scenario where I would like to restrict the transition to the Accepted status of the Quote object, only to the admin.
For this I configured a validation rule with the following ...
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Validation is not working on multiple conditions
I have a requirement to give access to few users changes leads ownership to there names.
So, I need a validation rule if they try to change ownership from other users. But it's not giving any error ...
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Validation rule for record type is not working
Below validation rule is not working. I want to check the record type contains R/O. If No only the user can edit the particular filed.
AND(
NOT(CONTAINS($RecordType.Name , 'R/O')),
ISCHANGED( ...
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Validation rule to check consecutive characters in field
I need to throw an error if there are three consecutive characters in field value.
like aaa,bbb,ccc,eee,AAA,BBB etc.
I am using below condition to check but dont think this is good solution.
OR(...
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need to check birthdate in Validation rule
I need to check birthdate in validation rule .If birthdate==01/01/2000 then i need to throw an validation error.
I used below condition but I am getting different error
Birthdate=DATE(01,01,2000)
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how to limit child records to 5 per day based on master field selection
There are 2 Custom objects Passport_Slot_Availability__c and Passport_Booking_Appointment__c.They both have master detail relationship. where Passport_Slot_Availability__c is master and ...
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Help with formula for validation rule on user fields
I'm trying to create a validation rule requiring 3 fields to be populated for 3 profiles. Here is what i have so far. I gave up after continued syntax errors. I need both Zone Approver Fields and ...
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Help with Validation Rule for record block
AND( NOT(Star_Job_Project__c ='Technology Product Sales'))
This validation rule is on Time Entry Object in which if STAR Job API - Star_Job_Project__c is equal to Technology Product Sales then that ...
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How to perform field update before a Validation Rule? (without code)
I have a requirement in which I have to check a Cases Owner before I can insert a task. It should only allow task creation on Cases with Owners which are not queues.
At first, we tried accessing the ...
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Validation Rule Help Please
BMCServiceDesk__Queue__c = The Queue
BMCServiceDesk__FKOpenBy__c = The Staff
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A. I'm trying to make it where, it does not allow Staff assignment without ...
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Restrict of updating opportunity owner
I want to restrict updating the opportunity owner. I cannot able to use the validation rule because ISCHANGED( Owner.Id ) is not working. Its giving the error like Error: The ISCHANGED function cannot ...
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Validation rule for opportunity stages
I'm looking for help with a validation rule for controlling movement through opportunity stages, based on "key fields" (setup for path) being checked or not. Essentially I just need to check are boxes ...
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Filter results in a Lookup Filter Field's search results
Custom Contact Field "Active" = Data type Checkbox.
"Active" is filterable in Contact Search Layouts.
If "Active" which is only a checkbox, & is a filter option in the Case>Contact Name>Lookup, ...
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How to store Currency in limits in currency field
I have a requirement where I need to store values in currency field as $2,00,000/$3,00,000. Basically, that field will be used to denote limits. I cannot do that using a currency field. WHen I tried ...
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Regex expression in Validation Rule
I have the following validation rule with regex expression. I have tested the expression working to my need but can't able save this coming up with syntax error could someone help me to get this ...
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Create an event only when contact approval status is approved
I want to display an error message when a user tries to create an event for a contact that is not approved. Is it possible to do this with a visualforce page?
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How to skip Required fields upon auto-creation of an object record?
I have this situation where I want to create a record on the ACCOUNT object and only when my custom field in ACCOUNT called 'Account status' is changed from 'new' to 'prospect', then it should auto-...
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validation rule on two pick fields based on values
I have two pick list fields product__c and Assigned_group__c
I am trying to write a validation if value on product__c picklist is DR user can only select L2 value on Assigned_group__c picklist and ...
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Validate Rule Doesn't Throw Syntax Error But Doesn't Throw Errors Either
I'm trying to run an Account Validation Rule where if the Account Status Equals Closed, Users cannot update the Account. System Admin Profile is allowed to edit. There aren't any syntax errors on ...
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Validation rule on multiselect picklist
I have a requirement -
Create a multiselect picklist field on account Named - Area and add to the page layout
There is a field on opportunity called pricebook and it is a lookup to Pricebook ...
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Validation Rules to prevent record edit/creation
Wondering if anyone can help me modify the existing validation rule formulas to meet some extended criteria?
Project custom object validation rule:
TEXT(PRIORVALUE(Status__c)) = 'Completed'
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Notes & Attachment + Validation Rule?
I need help building a Validation Rule to make sure "Notes and Attachments" are required before continuing to next stage. At least 1 attachment should be attached before the user can proceed to the ...
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Lock Opportunity Contact Role record
Since the OpportunityContactRole object is not a first class object you cannot create a trigger on the object, nor add fields or create a validation rule. Is it possible to prevent the deletion of an ...
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How to avoid showing “Save Success” message when there's an error message in visualforce page
I've a VF page which creates cases. It has lot of validation rules, workflows and approvals associated with it. When a user enters details to edit a
vf page which is in approval process (user is not ...
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Validation rule Preventing Process Builder Field Update process
I have Two business requirements
1) Leadership team asked me to prevent updating of Sales Stages manually
2) Sales Stages should be updated as result of Logging of Activities
So, I came with ...
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Lock record from approve/reject for current approver if the case is cancelled
Our case functionality involves multi level approval process and has the following status values:
Initiated
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Closed
Cancelled
There's a checkbox field, when unchecked ...
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Regex validation for Phone Number
I am trying to create a validation rule for US format number and using the following regex Validation
NOT(REGEX(Phone, "\\D*?(\\d\\D*?){10}"))
The above seems like a standard regex which will only ...
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Formula field to get records created this week on activities
I have a requirement where a checkbox is to be checked if a record is created by a specific profile this week on activity. So, I got the following formula:
IF(CreatedBy.Profile.Name = "Territory ...
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Validation Rule for Number only in Salesforce is throwing an error for (XXX) XXX-XXXX format
I have 3 phone fields in Salesforce Contact. I am supposed to prevent users from entering characters in the phone field.
I have used the below validation rule
(
Phone != null &&
...
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Validation rule to select a picklist value ONLY if picklist is clickable (Not greyed out)
i need to write a validation rule which makes sure that the user must select a value of a picklist that is dependent on another field. Problem here is that for some values in the controlling field ...
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Parent Validation Rule triggers in Child Record Creation causes Error
Hi I have an issue where in when I create a QuoteLineItem, it triggers a Quote validation rule. Which is fine but the error message is different. It should trigger the validation rule message
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How to tell which Validation / Workflow rule caused exception?
I am using a batch class to mass change the case owner from one queue to another, but during the update process I am returned the following exception:
FATAL_ERROR System.DmlException: Update failed. ...
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FIELD_CUSTOM_VALIDATION_EXCEPTION: Attempt to de-reference a null object
I'm facing a weird issue in our customer org. We try to update some lead objects in our managed package after some processing. We are seeing that sometimes the objects are updated successfully whereas ...
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Prevent users from creating event of particular record type from opportunity object
I want to pop up error whenever a permission set user tries to create an event of B type from an opportunity?
Event has two record types A,B
But the user who has permission set assigned Should not ...
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How to prevent a field from updating with a Valadation rule
I am trying to prevent a field on the Account object Servicing_Platform__c from being changed. Only profiles who can change it are Salesforce Administrator and System Administrator. This field is ...
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Is that possible to write a validation rule that would allow to update only two fields of 800 on a custom object record?
My colleague asked me today an interesting question I never thought of before.
Is that possible to write a validation rule that would allow to update only two fields of 800 on a custom object?
I know ...
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Picklist values in a formula on a validation rule (along with text fields)
I have a validation rule on the contract object which doesn't allow a checkbox to be checked by users until they have completed the required fields. The issue is that some of these fields are picklist ...
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Validation rule to allow modification of limited fields only
I have a object that has more than 40 fields. There are 3 record types and each layout shows different fields.
Now, I want to write a validation rule which allows editing of limited fields only when ...
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Validation rule not firing if there are empty spaces in Long text area field
I have a validation rule that should fire whenever there is a value on field 'A' and the 'description' field Long Text Area(32000)) of case object is left blank.
This rule fires for manual cases but ...
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force an opportunity to always have the same contract
Currently our salesforce users are changing the contracts of the opportunities. We automatically create a contract and do some maintenance on the contracts so we do not want anyone to replace the ...
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Multiple Validation Rules on a single field to be merged as one
Unknowingly there are 2 validation rules created for a single field and here are the rules.
Rule1 :
AND( ISPICKVAL(tesname__PotentialLiability__c, "Yes") ,
NOT(ISBLANK(tesname__Due_Date__c)), ...
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Validation rule to allow certain numbers
I am trying to write a simple validation rule and for some reason i am just not getting it right.
Here is what i want to do
If recordtype = Franchise, then i need to allow only the foll. numbers in ...
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Validation rule not thowing an error in sf1 app
I am having a strange issue.
I have created a validation rule on Contact object. The rule shows an error message when someone tries to update a closed contact. Closed value is contained within a ...
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URL Hacking not null validation rule in custom button
I have created 'Create Oppty' button on custom object License. Which is pre-populating some values on Oppty from License. I want to add one validation rule in this button like : Quantity != Blank....
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Validation rule to allow 15 digits only
Please advise a validation rule to allow me to enter 15 digits only.
If the number of entered digits is higher or less than 15 the validation rule should display an error message.
If there are ...
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Why do we disable validation rules and triggers while Data loads via loader
I'm trying to understand why do we disable validation rules and triggers while loading data via data loader or other tool. If we not disable, what will happen in the system level?
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how to write validation rule for child object on basis of parent object by lookup relationship?
I have two objects, one is event and other is attendee. Attendee has to select event in the form of lookup relationship. Event has two types of ticket, general and vip. Attendee won't select vip ...
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What are the ways by which we can bypass validation rule? [closed]
I wanted to know What are the ways by which we can bypass validation rule?
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Validation rule on a custom button to fire if not all fields are filled by the user and not allow user to move on
I have a custom conga sign button that sends out the contract, but we want a validation rule on the button so that the user cannot send the contract until all of the fields have been populated.
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Validation rule to prevent a profile user to edit a record in certain case
I have setup a validation rule to prevent any user with a particular profile(Worker) not to edit the record except the status field. This record is of Case object. I wish to allow the user to update ...
