Establish Required Field Settlement For Free

Required fields should be indicated with either a symbol or text, not just color. When providing an indicator for a required field, it should be placed right before the form field. This allows a screen reader to read the indicator to a screen reader user right before the user activates the field.

How to indicate a required field Provide the required text in the label. Provide a graphic image in the label with appropriate alt text. Providing a star (asterisk) symbol. Use of color to identify if a form control is required. Providing HTML5 and ARIA required attributes.

There are 4 ways of making the field mandatory: Page Layout: Field can be made mandatory from the page layout when it needs to be made mandatory for a set of users.

1. Make the field ?Required? at the time of field creation by checking the ?Required? check box. 2. Make the field Required through Page Layout by checking the ?Required ? checkbook in Field Properties.

Most of these forms have required fields which means the user must fill these fields in order to submit the form successfully.

There are 3 ways to make custom fields required.... Click on gear icon then Setup > Object Manager. Choose the object > Page Layouts. Select the page layout that you use on the object. Click on the wrench icon beside the custom field that you will make required. Select the Required checkbox. Click on Ok, then click on Save.

Use asterisks to indicate required fields? Another common approach seen in forms is to mark the mandatory fields with an asterisk and not mark the optional fields. While an asterisk to the left of the label makes it easy to see, it assumes a user understands what this means.