How To Add Column Validation To A SharePoint List

This SharePoint tutorial will outline how to add column validation to a SharePoint list. Specifically, it will demo how to implement several types of column-level validation in SharePoint list columns. Some of the examples covered include:

• How to implement SharePoint column validation that enforces input value length

• How to implement SharePoint column validation that enforces a date must be greater than today

• How to implement SharePoint column validation that enforces an input value must contain text

• How to implement SharePoint column validation that enforces input values must be between a range of numbers

• How to implement SharePoint column validation that enforces multiple conditions using an IF statement

• The limitations of column validation in SharePoint

How have you used column validation in SharePoint?