Re: How to Display text in empty fields
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 12301
interpreted = N
texte = >I have a question I was hoping one of you might be able to answer... We>have a database that is comprised of information from different companies,>the fields are: name, url, email, phone, fax, and description. Now, not>all records make use of all the fields, for example a record for a company>might have phone, fax and email, but no URL, while another one might have>a URL and email but no phone or fax. Now the fields that don't contain any>info, are simply blank. Now here's my question, I need to format my>results page to deal with this problem. I need to either insert N/A>automatically for the empty fields, or have them simply be>ignored(i.e.leave no empty space). Does anybody have any suggestions?Blank fields are ignored automatically if they are empty.Use [field][showif [field]=]N/A[/showif] instead of just [field] whereveryou want to display N/A in place of an empty field value ... :)Sincerely, Ken GromeWebDNA Solutions
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>I have a question I was hoping one of you might be able to answer... We>have a database that is comprised of information from different companies,>the fields are: name, url, email, phone, fax, and description. Now, not>all records make use of all the fields, for example a record for a company>might have phone, fax and email, but no URL, while another one might have>a URL and email but no phone or fax. Now the fields that don't contain any>info, are simply blank. Now here's my question, I need to format my>results page to deal with this problem. I need to either insert N/A>automatically for the empty fields, or have them simply be>ignored(i.e.leave no empty space). Does anybody have any suggestions?Blank fields are ignored automatically if they are empty.Use [field][showif [field]=]N/A[/showif] instead of just [field] whereveryou want to display N/A in place of an empty field value ... :)Sincerely, Ken GromeWebDNA Solutions
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