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# Require Field Input to Ensure Data Quality

Improve the quality of data that users enter in Salesforce by creating universally required fields.

### Required Editions

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          <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic and
            Lightning Experience</td>

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            <p>Available in: <strong>Contact Manager</strong>, <strong>Group</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>,
              <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, <strong>Developer</strong>, and
              <strong>Database.com</strong> Editions
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            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Connect Offline, Salesforce for Outlook, the Self-Service
              portal, Web-to-Lead, and Web-to-Case aren’t available in <strong>Database.com</strong></p>
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A universally required field is a custom field. It must have a value whenever a record is saved within Salesforce, the Lightning Platform API, Connect Offline, Salesforce for Outlook, the Self-Service portal, or automated processes, such as Web-to-Lead and Web-to-Case. Making a field required on a page layout or through field-level security ensures that users must enter a value. Making a field required universally gives you a higher level of data quality beyond the presentation level of page layouts.

You can make these types of custom fields universally required:

- Currency
- Date
- Date/Time
- Email
- Master-Detail Relationship (always required)
- Number
- Percent
- Phone
- Picklist
- Text
- Text Area
- URL

To make a custom field universally required, select the **Required** checkbox when defining the custom field.

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Note You must specify a default value for required campaign member custom fields.

If you make a user field universally required, you must specify a default value for that field.

Relationship group members don’t support universally required fields.

- **[Considerations for Universally Required Fields](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.fields_universally_required_field_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    A universally required field is a custom field. It must have a value whenever a record is saved within Salesforce, the Lightning Platform API, Connect Offline, Salesforce for Outlook, the Self-Service portal, or automated processes such as Web-to-Lead and Web-to-Case. Review the following considerations before making your custom fields universally required.