Forms are too loose with validation for Caption/Values

[tommhuth]

Which Umbraco version are you using?

13.5.3

Bug summary

We've had quite some issues with editors being allow to use field values that really make no sense. There is no validation or handling making sure that at least value is filled out, and both value and caption is optional. This means checkbox groups can have all empty values which of course is not going to work. We could fall back to caption as value but this gets a little tedious/impractial to do everywhere.

It would be great if Umbraco CMS could either

1. make caption and/or value required
2. or at least do some sort of auto fallback for caption and value in the CMS

I agree that if no caption => value and vice versa, but would be nice if the CMS did that job

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Expected result / actual result

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[github-actions]

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