Custom fields Checkbox and Required option

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Last updated by Luo Yang 4 years, 8 months ago.

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March 18, 2020 at 9:11 pm #1555431

fabioC-6

Tell us what you are trying to do?

In the list of my custom fields, I have set some of them to "Checkbox" type, and I have set the value to 1 when checked, and I have also set the option to set it to the value 0 when it is not checked. Then I have set the field to be "required".
In the backend, when I do insert a new custom post, the problem is that if I do not check it, I got the error message because the item is empty. So the 0 value is not set automatically.
Should I do not use required field option when using checkboxes in this way?
Or how can I have it set to 0 by default?

March 19, 2020 at 7:38 am #1555765

Luo Yang

Hello,

In your case, you do not need to enable the option "required", since if enable option "required", you will need to check the checkbox field when you save the post, soit won't save 0 value into database.

And according to our errtum, there is a known issue with the checkbox field using 0 value:
https://toolset.com/errata/checkboxes-that-save-0-are-interpreted-as-checked-by-views/

So if you want to use this custom checkbox to filter the view's result, it is recommended to use option:
"When unchecked, don't save anything to the database".

See screenshot: checkbox.JPG