{"id":1397284,"date":"2017-12-02T10:50:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/setting-categories-field-as-required-when-submitting-an-event\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:20:00","slug":"setting-categories-field-as-required-when-submitting-an-event","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/setting-categories-field-as-required-when-submitting-an-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Categories Field to Required When Submitting an Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I am setting fields in the input screen to required. I followed the instructions here: https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/required-fields-for-events-submission-form\/<\/p>\n<p>I am not successful in setting the EVENT CATEGORIES field to required. The only reference to Categories that I saw was <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>tax_input (for event categories)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My code:<\/p>\n<pre><code>add_filter( &#039;tribe_events_community_required_fields&#039;, &#039;my_community_required_fields&#039;, 10, 1 );\r\n\r\nfunction my_community_required_fields( $fields ) {\r\n\r\n    if ( ! is_array( $fields ) ) {\r\n        return $fields;\r\n    }\r\n\r\n    $fields[] = &#039;EventStartDate&#039;;\r\n    $fields[] = &#039;tax_input&#039;;\r\n\r\n    return $fields;\r\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>I was successful setting the Date field. <\/p>\n<p>Many thanks,<br \/>\nYehuda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1397284","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>Setting Categories Field to Required When Submitting an Event -<\/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\/setting-categories-field-as-required-when-submitting-an-event\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Setting Categories Field to Required When Submitting an Event -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello, I am setting fields in the input screen to required. 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