Trigger Validation on Change of status from Draft to Publish

Support
1

I have some validation rules in schema which automatically get triggered when we try to create/update but some user able to bypass that by using “Change of Status”. Is there way to trigger validation during Change of Status (i.e. from Draft to Published)?

2

No, the validation usually only trigger when the content is changed.

But I do not understand how they are able to bypass the validation.

3

If we chnage status from right pane as below, it does’t trigger validation.

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4

Yes, I understand that, but it also does not change the content, so it does not bypass validation.

5

I wanted to make sure some fields gets populated before content gets published. Is there a way I can trigger validation when this change occurs? Some kind of Post script ?

6

No, it is not possible. You can convert this topic to a feature request if you want.

7

Thanks, I will submit this as New Feature Request.

8

Now, I also have this requirement but haven’t found the feature request.

I found another similar post Published date property or published date in the past - Support - Squidex Support, and it inspired me to use the following method to capture state changes.

        var data = ctx.data;
        
        if (data.published) {
                if (ctx.status === "Published") {
                    data.published = { iv: true };
                } else {
                    data.published = { iv: false };
                }
                
                replace(data);
        }