I’ve created this feature request after the recent release of collapsible fields. I’d love if I could get a count or an indicator that a (collapsed) field has content, so it’s obvious at a glance. Otherwise, if we have collapsed a field, we have to expand it to check if there is any content. The s…

There is a tradeoff between convenience and performance here: when a Field is collapsed, we don’t query any data at all. To show an indicator if a Field is empty or not, we have to send an extra request — in the case of a rich-text Field, it would be a request to a separate /docs service. Comments …

That make sense, I suspected it might be a performance tradeoff.

This is a UX tension that needs to be resolved. I would recommend one of the two following approaches: 1. Making Empty Fields Semi-Transparent Fields without content are displayed with reduced opacity, indicating their empty status. Additionally, empty fields could be made smaller to reduce clutter…

Related: [image] Automatically hide empty fields in entity display (to reduce visual clutter) Ideas & Features 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 …

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Yuri_BC August 27, 2023, 7:07pm 5

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