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title: "How to put validation rules to ensure all required fields are filled before jumping to next Tab."
url: "https://openforis.support/questions/1343/how-to-put-validation-rules-to-ensure-all-required-fields-are-filled-before-jumping-to-next-tab"
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status: "answered"
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answer_count: 1
asked: "2017-08-03T01:11:36"
last_activity: "2017-08-03T09:23:37"
source: "Open Foris Support - Q&A Forum"
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# How to put validation rules to ensure all required fields are filled before jumping to next Tab.

Asked by jinkaizhang on 2017-08-03

Hello,

I have a Collect Earth survey with several TABs. How to put the validations rules to make sure all the fields must be filled on current Tab before jumping to next Tab?

Thanks,

Jinkai


## Answer (score 0, by Stefano (OF) on 2017-08-03)

Link: https://openforis.support/questions/1343/how-to-put-validation-rules-to-ensure-all-required-fields-are-filled-before-jumping-to-next-tab/1346

Dear Jinkai,  
There is no way to do it from the Survey Designer. What we can do is to add some kink of `block` in Collect Earth to prevent from jumping to another tab when there is some empty required field.  
Thank you very much for your suggestion, this feature will be added as soon as possible in one of the next releases of Collect Earth.  
Open Foris Team