How do I display custom fields with no values?

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January 8, 2019 at 8:59 pm #462226

John Els
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Hi,

I have handful of custom fields for my listings. I have assigned them all to display on the More Info tab on the details page. I have noticed that these fields are only displayed on the details page if the listing has a value for the field. What I’d like to do, is display all of the custom fields, whether they have values or not. If the field does not have a value, I’d like the field label to be displayed. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks,
John

January 8, 2019 at 11:13 pm #462259

Alex Rollin
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There is not, but I will flag the idea for the developers in case they have a workaround.

January 9, 2019 at 7:04 am #462294

Kiran
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Hello,

This is not possible at the moment without core customization.

Kiran

January 9, 2019 at 3:12 pm #462340

John Els
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OK, thanks. I’m assuming there are also no hooks or filters with code snippets that could achieve this? If not, I’m probably going to look at adding a non-obtrusive default character, like a period, to all those fields.

January 9, 2019 at 3:21 pm #462344

Alex Rollin
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We will look at this for future versions.

January 10, 2019 at 5:28 pm #462540

John Els
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Just in case anyone else is wondering about this, I solved my problem by adding values (a single period “.”) to all the fields that had no values. Since there were more than 500 listings, and I was worried about breaking category connections if I used the Export/Import function, I ran SQL statements directly on the database. Although potentially risky, this worked great for me. All fields are showing up now.

Thanks for you help here, Alex & Kiran!
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