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Default template /fragment of EA has some kind of feature, that can hide Fields during generation, which has no value. If I make my own template, I don't know how to get in that future.

Example: I can have attribute with or without initial value and I don't want to generate empty label Initial value: if attribute has no initial value.

user2512458
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In order to hide labels and formatting for blank/null values, you need to place bookmarks in the template/fragment around the text and field.

For example, if you are looking to have the field {Att.Default} with an optional label, you would place the bookmark Att.Default.Start before the label, and Att.Default.End, either at the end of the {Att.Default} or at the beginning of the next line, depending on how you want the layout to be.

Sadly, this doesn't work (at least for me) with custom fields in a custom fragment.

Screwtape
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  • Nice, that was well hidden in EA's manual. Do you know of a way to show the bookmarks in a document? – Geert Bellekens Nov 12 '15 at 09:57
  • I don't know any way of showing bookmarks in EA. If you go to the right-click menu and select insert and then bookmarks, you get a dialog where you can select existing bookmarks and select Go-To in order to move the cursor to the bookmark's position. In Word, you see the bookmarks as faint `[` and `]` characters, but equally you need to go to the dialog to find out which ones are which. – Screwtape Nov 12 '15 at 13:57
  • Thanks, I was afraid that was the answer. – Geert Bellekens Nov 12 '15 at 14:06
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eaDocX has a different approach. It has a single setting "Compact Document" which suppresses ALL fields which don't have a value.

Ian Mitchell
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