Display missing required fields in a workflow
When you are in a state in a workflow where it cannot continue, because there are required fields, those fields should be visible, even if they have no data, when you are in view mode. It is confusing to the user to see an error that there are required fields, but not be able to see the fields until they click edit.
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Thank you for your post on the community. Indeed currently, when a user consults a document in view mode and some properties do not have values, the properties are hidden. They are only displayed when the document is opened in edit mode.
Does your use case have a situation where a document approver doesn't have edit access to the document? She/he would therefore be blocked from executing the workflow action.
If not, would you have the property displayed (possibly in red or orange to indicate a warning) with a "no_value" or "missing value" tag?
No, the person has edit rights. It just seems like it would be a clearer visual to see the fields that are required.
As it is now, the person goes into the AODocs Document Management library with the purpose of moving the workflow forward. They see the message of:
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