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Eliminate extra breaks when a Paragraph is conditionally inserted
Eliminate extra breaks when a Paragraph is conditionally inserted
Empty Placeholder in a Template
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Written by Ben Q
Updated over a week ago

When you create a conditional field and the paragraph that should appear/disappear based on a question, you naturally want to create the conditional field as follows:

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If there is no Commission, the field will default to “Exclude this field”, which automatically inserts a blank placeholder in the document.

Instead of creating the conditional field as mentioned above, use the language below as part of your conditional field. Your conditional field should say:

  • if there is a Commission, insert the "Commission" and “Payment” paragraphs

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  • if there is no Commission, insert the “Payment” paragraph

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This way you don’t have an option to “exclude the fields” and you will have no empty placeholder in the document!

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