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Dear all:

I’m creating a custom field (text area) called Opinion.

Opinion
Blah blah blah blah

I want to display this ONLY if the field is filled (ex. blah blah blah) - if blank then don’t show. How do I do this?

I looked under conditional and global var in doc but it seemed to focus on member or member groups.

thank you,
Plurky

It should be as simple as saying:

{if {custom_field} != ""}show the field here{/if}

Actually, this should probably be:

{if custom_field != ""}show the field here{/if}

i.e. no curly braces.

Amazingly, I always get that wrong when I’m coding it and have to change it - clearly it happens to so often that my brain can’t understand which way is actually correct.

If you do use braces you should probably also use quotes, but that is almost never necessary, and in fact not recommended, as EE will be able to do less sanity checking that way. Not saying it’s necessarily a big risk, but still you should avoid it if you can.

worked like a charm, thank you!

For more of an explanation on the correct syntax, see global conditionals and troubleshooting conditionals.  Good reads. =)