Forum Discussion
Date Validation in Lists
I'm new to playing around with Lists as I'm taking over for someone who used to manage these.
We are using this list to request staffing and part of that is a "Staffing Start" date column. That date needs to be in 2024. I add my column "Staffing Start" and default the value to today's date and require the column contains information and then I put in validation. I've tried the following (and some others)
- =YEAR([Staffing Start])=2024
- =TEXT([Staffing Start],"yyyy")="2024"
- =[Staffing Start]>DATE(2023,12,31)
When I put any of them in the validation while in the "Lists" application. I get "Sorry, we couldn't edit the column. Please try again." When I am in the browser and edit the column it saves but when I open it again the [Staffing Start] is changed to #NAME?. The ">" symbol is changed to ">" as well.
I assume this is an idiosyncrasy of the browser because of the > swap.
What am I doing wrong? I need this validation to work.
- Just wanted to follow up on this. I cannot get it to work in the application but on the website if I go to the list Settings then go to the column there, I'm able to get the column validation settings. So it seems to be an application (MS Lists) issue.
