# \[APPROVED\] Colour coding of rich text fields for "is empty" and "is not empty"

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-colour-coding-of-rich-text-fields-for-is-empty-and-is-not-empty/779>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [June 17, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-colour-coding-of-rich-text-fields-for-is-empty-and-is-not-empty/779 "2020-06-17T07:57:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChrisSparkT](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chrissparkt/32/597_2.png) [@ChrisSparkT](https://community.fibery.io/u/ChrisSparkT)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-colour-coding-of-rich-text-fields-for-is-empty-and-is-not-empty/779/1 "2020-06-17T07:57:12Z")

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When I’m creating a board that needs cards to have fields filled in for data collects I want to use colour coding to see which cards do not have fields set. Add ability to use “is empty” and “is not empty” on rich text fields to allow this across all entity content.

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**Author:** ![chris.burchartz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chris.burchartz/32/662_2.png) [@chris.burchartz](https://community.fibery.io/u/chris.burchartz)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 9:48am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-colour-coding-of-rich-text-fields-for-is-empty-and-is-not-empty/779/2 "2020-06-20T09:48:20Z")

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> [@ChrisSparkT](#):
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> ability to use “is empty” and “is not empty” on rich text fields to allow this across all entity content.

We’ll definitely need:

- Mandatory fields (with highlighting of insufficiently filled fields)
- Denying “saving” of an entity, if mandatory fields have not been sufficiently filled
- Color-coding of fields (following customizable rules)

All of this is of course quite complex for a proper implementation  
But: Yeah - we’ll need this stuff to calm our tortured souls

Cheers, Chris

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**Author:** ![B\_Sp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@B\_Sp](https://community.fibery.io/u/B_Sp)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/approved-colour-coding-of-rich-text-fields-for-is-empty-and-is-not-empty/779/3 "2020-06-20T19:03:16Z")

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Chris, great suggestions. Wanted to flag up another similar re: required fields:

> [@\[DONE\] Form View and required fields](https://community.fibery.io/t/form-view-and-required-fields/680):
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> I’m building an app for bug reporting that has multiple rich text fields (“steps to reproduce”, “expected behavior”, and “actual behavior”). I’d like a form view for this type that lets me enforce that users must fill out these fields in order to create a new a bug report.

Required fields definitely a big one for those of us doing Software Development. As a related note, I’d love to see required commenting when closing, sort of “resolution” type functionality where you’d need to explain in comments what you’ve done to wrap up an issue…

And you also seem to be referencing conditional formatting, also out there here:

> [@Conditional Formatting](https://community.fibery.io/t/conditional-formatting/472):
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> It would be great if at some point there was a common conditional formatting feature that could be applied throughout the platform on different UI elements including fields, tables, cards, boards, etc. I am not sure if having a uniform formatting feature for the UI components is feasible but I think that would be quite interesting.

Since we just heard a lot about how Coda compares to Fibery, this is one of the most useful features of Coda I’d like to see over here…

Cheers!