Make an Optional Field Required and a Required Field Optional

To support your policies that contradict the implemented field state, you can change optional fields to make them required. You can also change required fields to make them optional.

1. Click My Client Groups.
2. In the Quick Actions area, click HCM Experience Design Studio. The action creates a sandbox and activates it before opening the studio.
3. On the HCM Experience Design Studio page, click the Transaction Design Studio tab.
4. In the Actions field, select the page with the field you want to hide. For example, you want to make optional fields on the New Contact page required, so you select Family and Emergency Contacts.
5. To add a rule for the page, click Add
6. In the Available Attributes section, Data Source field, select the section with the fields you want to make required or optional, such as Additional Info on Create page.
7. In the row with the optional field you want to make required, such as Student Status and Disability Type, change Not required to Required.
   In the row with the required field you want to make optional, change Required to Not required
8. Click Save and Close.
9. On the HCM Experience Design Studio page, click Done.
10. Open the changed page, such as New Contact, and verify that the fields correctly indicate whether they're required.
11. To publish your changes, on the DESIGN_STUDIO_AUTO_CREATED_SB menu, select Publish.