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Ability to make a field Mandatory even when legacy records have NULL values

Related products:CS Data Management & Integrations
  • July 11, 2022
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jenlpro
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It would be great if Gainsight allowed you to mark a field as mandatory post-creation despite existing records having null values. I would love it if one of the two were true:

  1. Field can be marked mandatory if there are null records, but records with NULL values will prompt field population upon next “edit” on the record page (ie if field is on C360, next time C360 is in “edit” mode, there is an error to populate the field before saving)
  2. Field can be marked mandatory with Admin prompted to set a default value which will automatically populate for all NULL legacy records before field was mandatory.

The process right now is too clunky and time-consuming. This would save a lot of time, make the admin experience much smoother, and help with data integrity. 

 

(and yes, I do have previous Salesforce admin experience and am missing this functionality greatly in Gainsight 😭)

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jenlpro
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  • November 8, 2022

This came up again in my organization this week - our company now wants to make Title a mandatory field on Contact records across our systems & product, and this would be tremendously helpful functionality to quickly make the change for new records/updates 😊


HollySimmons
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  • May 14, 2026

Yup this is super annoying, having to backwards fill all records with superfluous data when we add a new field thats required moving forward...