Validation Rules

Improve the quality of your data using validation rules. Validation rules verify that the data a user enters in a record meets the standards you specify before the user can save the record. A validation rule can contain a formula or expression that evaluates the data in one or more fields and returns a value of “True” or “False”. Validation rules also include an error message to display to the user when the rule returns a value of “True” due to an invalid value.

FIELD	DESCRIPTION
Rule Name	Unique identifier of up to 40 characters with no spaces or special characters such as extended characters.
Active	Checkbox that indicates if the rule is enabled.
Description	A 255-character or less description that distinguishes the validation rule from others. For internal purposes only.
Error Condition Formula	The expression used to validate the field. See Build a Formula Field and Formula Operators and Functions.
Error Message	The message that displays to the user when a field fails the validation rule.