# Is er een manier om een min en max op te geven voor settings.yml voor een plugin?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-specify-a-min-and-max-for-settings-yml-for-a-plugin/259676
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [28 maart 2023 om 10:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-specify-a-min-and-max-for-settings-yml-for-a-plugin/259676 "2023-03-28T10:35:22Z")
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### Author:  [@bstgmr02](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bstgmr02)
#### Post date: [28 maart 2023 om 10:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-specify-a-min-and-max-for-settings-yml-for-a-plugin/259676/1 "2023-03-28T10:35:22Z")
// Running Discourse Development Environment //
I have the following:
```plaintext
min_score:
default: 0.01
client: true
min: 0.0001
```
But the admin can keep overwriting it to negative values, is there a workaround for this?
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### Author:  [@Arkshine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arkshine)
#### Post date: [28 maart 2023 om 17:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-specify-a-min-and-max-for-settings-yml-for-a-plugin/259676/2 "2023-03-28T17:29:33Z")
I could not reproduce your setting as it is:
Can you try adding `type: float`?
I’m not sure it’s required, as I believe basic types are guessed automatically.
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### Author:  [@bstgmr02](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bstgmr02)
#### Post date: [29 maart 2023 om 08:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-specify-a-min-and-max-for-settings-yml-for-a-plugin/259676/3 "2023-03-29T08:02:07Z")
I did try the `type: float` too but sadly it had no affect:
```plaintext
min_score:
default: 0.01
client: true
min: 0.0001
type: float
```
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### Author:  [@Arkshine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arkshine)
#### Post date: [29 maart 2023 om 11:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-specify-a-min-and-max-for-settings-yml-for-a-plugin/259676/4 "2023-03-29T11:33:07Z")
Your screenshot is not showing the `minimum_tip` setting.
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### Author:  [@bstgmr02](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bstgmr02)
#### Post date: [29 maart 2023 om 11:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-specify-a-min-and-max-for-settings-yml-for-a-plugin/259676/5 "2023-03-29T11:36:30Z")
Was just a typo in my post, has been updated. Issue still remains.
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### Author:  [@bstgmr02](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bstgmr02)
#### Post date: [29 maart 2023 om 14:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-specify-a-min-and-max-for-settings-yml-for-a-plugin/259676/6 "2023-03-29T14:12:43Z")
Weird thing is that it resets the value to back to `0.0` when I enter an invalid number but only upon refreshing. But no errors are appearing on the UI side either way.
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### Author:  [@bstgmr02](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bstgmr02)
#### Post date: [30 maart 2023 om 10:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-specify-a-min-and-max-for-settings-yml-for-a-plugin/259676/7 "2023-03-30T10:09:31Z")
Bump.
Custom validation seems to work and error out, however I have no luck with the default validation of min/max.
Anyone have any ideas?
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### Author:  [@bstgmr02](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bstgmr02)
#### Post date: [30 maart 2023 om 10:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-specify-a-min-and-max-for-settings-yml-for-a-plugin/259676/8 "2023-03-30T10:31:04Z")
After some further testing, it seems like it does not work for `type: float`, and only works for `type: integer`. However, a user can freely input anything apart from an integer - which requires a hard refresh and results in the value resetting to 0.
Seems like a bug/error on Discourse’s side? It also seems to affect the Chat plugin.