Make publish & unpublish date required.

Hi,

I am using EasyBlog to allow front end users to create "Events" (which are actually just blogs).

I have modified it so that the publish date is the event start date, and the unpublish date is the event end date.

Is it possible to make the publish and unpublish fields on the dashboard write page required so that users are forced to enter these details - just like the title field is required and a pop-up window displays to prompt users to add a title.

This would be very helpful for me.

Thanks very much,

Ian