Save is blocked with "Fix validation errors before saving"

What you are seeing

A Capable form on a Confluence page with a red Your name is required message and a Fix validation errors before saving notice — Save is blocked until every required field is filled in. Fix the field marked in red, then select Save again.

Save is blocked with "Fix validation errors before saving".

#Why it happens

One or more fields failed validation - a Required field is empty, a URL is not a safe web address, text is outside the character limits, or a number is non-numeric, not whole with decimals off, or outside Minimum/Maximum.

#What to do

Look for the red messages under individual fields and correct them. Each names the field by its label.

#A few things that catch people out

If the feature-flag service is slow or fails, Advanced types stay blocked - the gate treats "not ready" as "not allowed".

"Could not save form - try again"

The save could not locate the form's macros in the page content. It retried five times ove

Required fields and character or number limits are being ignored - people are saving anything

The fields are standalone Input macros, not fields inside a Form container. Standalone fie

Everything else

The rest of this family.

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