Mandatory taxonomy attributes

Hi ,
How to make the taxonomy attributes mandatory apart from writing validations ? I have a requirement wherein not all the attributes for a class are mandatory .
Regards
Yogesh

Hello Yogesh
If we told about Data Manager(DM).
Unfortunately, you can't make attributes mandatory by another way.
In DM you see all attributes linked to selected taxonomy item.
You can't hide part of them, according you multistage business process.
But you can create validation for part of them as you need.
That will be combination from workflow, validation and assignment.
Use additional field where you will save current stage before
Validation will work depend of combination mandatory attributes and that field value.
Validation should have type "Error"
Assignment will launch(from WF) by the end of current stage and change old stage value to new.
Regards
Kanstantsin Chernichenka

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