Bug Report: Empty textarea fields shown in email templates

[flip3]

Hello,

When I define a field as textarea field and it is empty, it still shows up in the email template when using this code:

Code:

{if $ANSWER_accommodation_description}Description: {$ANSWER_accommodation_description}
{/if}

Additionally, it adds two line breaks after the field instead of one in the case of other field types. I solved this now by using simply this code (not sure if that's ok):

Code:

{if $ANSWER_accommodation_description}Description: {$ANSWER_accommodation_description}{/if}

I was also trying to use double if-tags in email templates which produced an error. Is there another chance to show a block of information only if a specific condition matches? In my case it should be that the airport_transfer field value should match with "yes":

Code:

{if $ANSWER_airport_transfer=yes}### TRANSFER ###
{if $ANSWER_transfer_name}Name: {$ANSWER_transfer_name}
{/if}
{if $ANSWER_transfer_phone}Phone: {$ANSWER_transfer_phone}
{/if}
{if $ANSWER_transfer_description}Description: {$ANSWER_transfer_description}
{/if}{/if}

Many thanks,

Philip

[kwhitlock]

If you do a character count on a LARGE TEXT field, even though it may be NULL the count returns as 10. If there are characters in that field, the character count is 10 + length of the string. I would think this is a bug. I am facing the same problem. For the fields that are <256, the count returns fine.

try {$nameOfField|count_characters:true}

[flip3]

Hello,

Thanks for your feedback. I tried both:

{if $ANSWER_school_schedule|count_characters:true}Your schedule: {$ANSWER_school_schedule}
{/if} -> Doesn't change anything.

{if $ANSWER_school_schedule}Your schedule: {$ANSWER_school_schedule|count_characters:true}
{/if} -> Show the character count which is "80" in my case instead of the field content.

Philip

[kwhitlock]

So is this a bug or not? I am still confused to the count of characters in a textarea.

[flip3]

For me it's a bug but I'm not a developer. The Form Tools team has to advice ...