To reduce visual clutter, I suggest that empty fields can be hidden from the entity display. This can be implemented in different ways, for example as an button that allows empty fields (which have been enabled, but are empty) to become visible to edit. I am aware of the ability to show hide the ri…

Related: Individual Layouts for a node, hide fields etc - #69 by Matt_Blais I would find it very helpful to have a “Show All Fields” toggle in the fields selectors , which would TEMPORARILY (and only for the current user) show all fields… and which could simply be un-toggled to return to the previ…

What if the Creator has decided that certain fields should ideally be hidden from non-Creator users? Should a non-Creator be able to show all fields?

I see this (“toggle to temporarily show all fields in entity view”) as more of a Creator level function, useful to temporarily “see what’s there” in order to better understand/remember the DB structure.

But the feature as described above (auto-hiding empty fields) would seem to be useful for non-creators, no?

The primary need here is the visual clutter of how the single empty field currently looks (as shown in the main topic here) and if there are several field this quickly fills the whole browser window. This actually is scaring away people I showed Fibery. See below the actual fields that I use: [ima…

I know this has also been suggested elsewhere, but one of the other ways of dealing with this is to make field visibility to be also formula driven. This allows for a more sophisticated approach to what to show and when. One of the things I find amazing about QGIS (open source GIS application) is t…

agree with that, zen mode like this, using a lot in reading document. It’d be nice to have a visual focus on the main things rather than distract by all other

Something related: When printing an entity as PDF, all fields are printed also regardless whether they are empty or not: [image]

[image] cannibalflea: I know this has also been suggested elsewhere, but one of the other ways of dealing with this is to make field visibility to be also formula driven. This allows for a more sophisticated approach to what to show and when. This would be a great solution. Also for other pur…

Automatically hide empty fields in entity display (to reduce visual clutter)

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Yuri_BC July 22, 2023, 7:24pm 7

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Automatically hide empty fields in entity display (to reduce visual clutter)

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