I believe the reason is that it requires the user to log off and back on again before they get that "please complete this new field" page notice.   That could have something to do with the cron, maybe that function or class is only called on login by the cron.   Again i have never tested this but its good that you found it, if true i would call that a bug myself.   

But you also have to be careful with adding redirects.   What happens if you add a required field and the user is filling out a form or chatting and all of a sudden they get redirected right in the middle of a conversation or form submission to the required field page, that would upset most users.   Just be careful and test it fully.  :)

After thinking about this more, i think the best solution is to have in your listener a site notify event so that when you add a new required profile field the user will get a site notification of this (or you can do an email if you want).  And in the site notification have a link to their profile just for convenience.    

I have not tested if they are asked to fill out the new field if they visit their profile or not (without logging out first).  If they do then the notication would be the best way IMO.  

This would keep any issues from arrising from the added redirect as it would no longer be needed.

Thanks Dave. It's its a bit messed up let me explain.

Thats how they checked which was newer, they compared the timestamps which are integer values to figure out if the question or the profile was newer.  If the question was newer then they wanted the user to complete it, if the profile was newer then do nothing because everything was updated already. 

That's ain't right case if I decide to switch some question to required it should be required for all what's the point of that it's beyond me.

It would be required for all the next time they log in, i believe is how it works.

Im glad you got it working the way you want it to.  

Thanks Dave but it doesn't work like it suppose to work.

When i set mine to required and then go from the admin to the site, it brings up the question that i must compete.  But that might be your plugin doing that lol 

Yes that's the pluging it resets your last edit time to question edit time. 

Thanks Dave you rock buddy. Always there willing to help out. This community should be gratfull to have you around. 

I thought so :)

NP man, glad to help.... just pass the knowledge forward to someone else :0) have a look tomorrow at that code in the init file and let me know if thats good.  If you need help with next part (replacement) then ill check that out too, i remember you had asked about that but i wanted to get to know the plugin a bit first.. 

Also remember it helps me too, i learn stuff as i go as well :)

Great appreciate it.