# Required fields that are not visible

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/required-fields-that-are-not-visible/3016>\
**Category:** Report a Bug\
**Created:** [December 19, 2019, 11:57pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/required-fields-that-are-not-visible/3016 "2019-12-19T23:57:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/required-fields-that-are-not-visible/3016/31 "2021-11-10T15:38:06Z")

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Your issues seems to be different from this thread. The original issue was that a form could not be submitted when required fields were hidden (thus no longer required). Your issue is the opposite where you are hiding required fields, but they still are required. The native form screen wasn’t really designed to handle multiple paging like this. I would recommend creating a custom form instead. It will have the benefit that you can control which fields are required prior to showing a submit button and it has the added bonus that a user can leave the form and come back without having to start over.

> [@How do I create a custom form?](https://community.glideapps.com/t/how-do-i-create-a-custom-form/25014):
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> I’m just dropping this here so I have something to refer people to when they ask. This is a simple concept app (copyable), that demonstrates the following techniques: Building custom forms for adding and editing list items (as an alternative to the native forms provided by Glide) Preventing duplicate new entries using [User Specific Columns](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/data-editor/user-specific-columns) and [Relations](https://docs.glideapps.com/all/reference/data-editor/computed-columns/relation-column) Enforcing mandatory input items The use of visibility conditions and user specific booleans to control user flow There is nothing particula…

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