# Component field visibility if null

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-field-visibility-if-null/84500>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [September 21, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-field-visibility-if-null/84500 "2025-09-21T01:10:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![bradwindecker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@bradwindecker](https://community.glideapps.com/u/bradwindecker)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-field-visibility-if-null/84500/1 "2025-09-21T01:10:19Z")

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I have text fields in my app that are null, because a user didn’t fill them out.  
I removed all the visibility filters, but the fields with null values do not show on that record.  
How do I display the component field on the record (ie: category) even if the user doesn’t populate the field when adding the item?

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/component-field-visibility-if-null/84500/2 "2025-09-21T02:21:06Z")

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It depends on the type of component that is displaying it. Say you’re using something like a Fields component, the field doesn’t show if the value is empty. It’s by design (and I would really want it to be customizable).

It would then come to either you using an If-Then-Else column to return N/A if the real value is empty, or use an AI component to force the same layout but support empty values.