diff --git a/gatk.wdl b/gatk.wdl
index 4029ae02006180c8cc28576fab6cb10d00b1c499..cd0ed187c7ea92a60d7ca55efeb5c61c85014937 100644
--- a/gatk.wdl
+++ b/gatk.wdl
@@ -1393,8 +1393,8 @@ task SelectVariants {
                              category: "required"}
         referenceFastaFai: {description: "The index for the reference fasta file.", category: "required"}
         selectTypeToInclude: {description: "Select only a certain type of variants from the input file", category: "common"}
-        outputPath: {description: "The location the output VCF file should be written.", category: "required"}
-        intervals: {description: "Bed files or interval lists describing the regions to operate on.", category: "advanced"}
+        outputPath: {description: "The location the output VCF file should be written.", category: "advanced"}
+        intervals: {description: "Bed files or interval lists describing the regions to operate on.", category: "common"}
 
         memory: {description: "The amount of memory this job will use.", category: "advanced"}
         javaXmx: {description: "The maximum memory available to the program. Should be lower than `memory` to accommodate JVM overhead.",
diff --git a/rtg.wdl b/rtg.wdl
index 10856eea275f4b7d5a59e769a261e8928d9f6789..b629b1d0a17ea0fcb9462da6ae2296554fa368df 100644
--- a/rtg.wdl
+++ b/rtg.wdl
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ task Format {
         format: {description: "Format of input. Allowed values are [fasta, fastq, fastq-interleaved, sam-se, sam-pe] (Default is fasta)",
                  category: "advanced"}
         outputPath: {description: "Where the output should be placed.", category: "advanced"}
-        inputFiles: {description: "input sequence files. May be specified 1 or more times."}
+        inputFiles: {description: "input sequence files. May be specified 1 or more times.", category: "required"}
         dockerImage: {description: "The docker image used for this task. Changing this may result in errors which the developers may choose not to address.",
               category: "advanced"}
         memory: {description: "The amount of memory this job will use.", category: "advanced"}