Q:

Form Validation Help

I have a SharePoint list with a number of various columns.
One column titled Salary Step Processing. Whenever the value of this column is not set to Not Required, I require another column titled Birthday Updates to be set to Automatic - Use Salary Step Processing Post Payrun.
I was hoping to use the Validation settings to assist, but I'm not sure exactly how.
Any ideas?

A:

Validation settings can prompt the user to set the conditionally required column with something like:
Formula:

=IF([Salary Step Processing]<>"Not Required",IF([Birthday Updates]<>"Automatic - Use Salary Step Processing Post Payrun",TRUE,FALSE),TRUE)

User Message:
Birthday Updates must be set to "Automatic - Use Salary Step Processing Post Payrun" if Salary Step Processing is required.
If you would like the column to be updated automatically when Salary Step Processing not equals Not Required, I believe that would require some code.

