{"id":1118828,"date":"2016-05-25T11:45:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T18:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/require-event-start-date-not-working\/"},"modified":"2016-05-30T17:18:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T00:18:24","slug":"require-event-start-date-not-working","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/require-event-start-date-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Require event start date not working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used this page to setup my required fields but start date doesn&#8217;t seem to notice if the field is empty when submitted. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"QNnQGzgyBm\"><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=5WElnGCKGM#?secret=QNnQGzgyBm\" data-secret=\"QNnQGzgyBm\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I need this field required because people are forgetting to enter their event date. By default it uses todays date and if they forget to change the date their event gets submitted with todays date which is no good. I removed the value that was populating todays date so the field is now empty but the validation does not work. <\/p>\n<p>To make sure it wasn&#8217;t my value modification causing the issue I put all the original code back with todays date as the value and clicked in the field and backspaced the date out so the field was empty and still didn&#8217;t get a notification the field was required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1118828","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>Require event start date not working -<\/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\/require-event-start-date-not-working\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Require event start date not working -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I used this page to setup my required fields but start date doesn&#8217;t seem to notice if the field is empty when submitted. 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