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title: "Comment Required Validator"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/JMWE/462061952/Comment%20Required%20Validator"
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> Macro (aura-html)

<span style="color: #333333">When you add this validator to a transition and trigger the transition, the add-on checks for a value in the </span>**Comment**<span style="color: #333333"> field of the </span>**Transition screen. **<span style="color: #333333">The comment field is suffixed with a red asterisk. If it is blank, the configured validation error message will be displayed. However, users from the selected groups can progress to the destination status without entering a comment.</span>

Note that this validator does nothing if the transition is being made through SOAP, because the `progressWorkflowAction` method does not let you specify a comment.

## Validator Scope

<span style="color: #091e42">To execute this validator based on the result of a groovy expression see </span>[Conditional execution using Groovy expression](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/JMWE/pages/461996060)<span style="color: #091e42">.</span>

<span style="color: #172b4d">**Show asterisk (**</span><span style="color: #ff0000">*****</span><span style="color: #172b4d">**) if the condition returns **</span>`true`<span style="color: #172b4d">** upon showing the screen**</span>

<span style="color: #000000">By default, the red asterisk is not shown on the screen against the Comment field when using Conditional Validation, because the condition's value might depend on what the user will later enter on the transition screen. Check this option to show the asterisk if the condition returns </span>`true`<span style="color: #000000"> upon entering the transition or issue creation screen. This is useful when the condition is not dependent on the other fields shown on the screen (e.g. it only depends on the issue type, the current user's project role, etc.).</span>