{"id":1100919,"date":"2016-04-11T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T19:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/required-additional-fields\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T09:35:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T16:35:04","slug":"required-additional-fields","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/required-additional-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Required Additional Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to wrap my head around this using this help page:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"jEjDbliOUY\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/required-fields-for-events-submission-form\/\">Required Fields for Events Submission Form<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Required Fields for Events Submission Form&#8221; &#8212; Knowledgebase\" src=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/required-fields-for-events-submission-form\/embed\/#?secret=IVBrtrwC7v#?secret=jEjDbliOUY\" data-secret=\"jEjDbliOUY\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I know how to make an additional field required.  however I have 5 additional fields created that all make up one section called &#8220;Genres&#8221;.   I have been trying to make that entire section required by using  _ecp_custom in the functions.php.  Where the help page it refers to <em>shortcuts that can be used to make and entire field required<\/em>, is _ecp_custom not a shortcut?   <\/p>\n<p>In a previous thread i was told that I should look at square bracketed\/array field to accomplish this, but i really can&#8217;t figure out how.  I was hoping that that it would function the same way tax_input functions where I have multiple categories and the user only needs to select one.  Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated.    Thanks again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1100919","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Required Additional Fields -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/required-additional-fields\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Required Additional Fields -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve been trying to wrap my head around this using this help page: Required Fields for Events Submission Form I know how to make an additional field required. however I have 5 additional fields created that all make up one section called &#8220;Genres&#8221;. 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