{"id":13313,"date":"2025-03-25T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T10:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/taking-submissions\/categories\/limiting-entries-in-categories\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:28:19","slug":"limiting-entries-in-categories","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/taking-submissions\/categories\/limiting-entries-in-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Limiting entries in categories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When a candidate is submitting, you may want to restrict how many categories they can enter their submission in to. You are able to now restrict this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do this: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to your opportunity dashboard<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find the categories tab <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Toggle &#8216;Allow entry to be made to multiple categories&#8217; off if you want to stop candidates from submitting one entry to multiple categories<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"229\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13316 lazyload\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-100320-1024x229.png\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-100320-1024x229.png 1024w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-100320-300x67.png 300w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-100320-768x171.png 768w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-100320-20x4.png 20w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-100320-32x7.png 32w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-25-100320.png 1398w\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a candidate is submitting, you may want to restrict how many categories they can enter their submission in to. You are able to now restrict this. To do this:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":12935,"menu_order":35,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-13313","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/13313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/13313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14210,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/13313\/revisions\/14210"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/12935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=13313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}