Hi,

By following this tutorial and another one, my CPT uses custom status: draft, publish, lock-1, lock-2, lock-3.

With plugin metabox text field called “First Name”, I set on_post_status to “lock-1–lock-3”.

My issue happens when I switch the status from lock-1 to lock-2. With lock-1, the field does show value instead of a box. However, when I switch to lock-2 (from lock-1),
when the field value disappears, and shows a warning “Fist Name is required”.

Another interesting this is, if it is not “required”, I can’t switch from lock-1 to lock-2. It will automatically go back to “published”, so that I can switch to lock-2.

I would appreciate if any advise you may provide. Thanks.

    ,'status' => array(
        'draft' => array(
          'label' => 'Draft'
        )
        ,'publish' => array(
          'label' => 'Published'
        )
        ,'lock-1' => array(
          'label' => 'Lock 1'
        )
        ,'lock-2' => array(
          'label' => 'Lock 2'
        )
        ,'lock-3' => array(
          'label' => 'Lock 3'
        )

piklist('field', array(
            'type' => 'text'
            ,'field' => 'contact_firstname'
            ,'label' => 'First Name'
            //,'required' => true
            ,'columns' => 3
            ,'on_post_status' => array('value' => 'lock-1--lock-3')
));