In a Toolset form, you may want to require the user to select at least one checkbox in a custom Checkboxes field.

It is not possible to set up this requirement through the user interface but you can enforce it using the cred_form_validate API hook.

You can use Toolset to add the following code to your site.

Code Snippet
<?php 
/**
 * User defined values.
 *
 * Fill here the IDs of the Forms that you want to affect with this snippet.
 * For a single Form, use $target_forms = array( XXX );
 * For multiple Forms, use $target_forms = array( XXX, YYY );
 * In this example, we target Forms with ID equal to 12345 and 67890.
 *
 * Define here the Types checkboxes fields that you want to affect with this snippet.
 * In this example, we target a Types checkboxes field with a slug of 'hobbies'.
     */    
toolset_snippet_security_check() or die( 'Direct access is not allowed' );
add_filter( 'cred_form_validate', 'tssnippet_at_least_one_checkbox_validation', 10, 2 );
function tssnippet_at_least_one_checkbox_validation( $field_data, $form_data ) {

    $target_forms = array( 12345, 67890 );
    $target_field_slug = 'hobbies';

    if ( ! in_array( $form_data['id'], $target_forms ) ) {
        return $field_data;
    }

    // $field_data contains fields values and errors
    list( $fields, $errors ) = $field_data;

    if ( ! isset( $fields[ 'wpcf-' . $target_field_slug ]['value'][0] ) ) {
        $errors[ $target_field_slug ] = 'At least one checkbox is required';
    }

    return array( $fields, $errors );
}

Do the following to customize the snippet for your own site:

  1. Change the 12345,67890 values to a comma-separated list of Toolset forms IDs where you want to apply this validation.
  2. Change the value of the $target_field_slug variable to match the slug of your custom checkboxes field.