How to conditionally hide a field in a drupal view?

Question

I have two fields that I want to render but I only want the second one to display when the first one is empty. Short of overriding the field in a template file, can I do this using functionality in the built in views functionality?

Answer 1

For views 3 , drupal 7

• Desired output - Show field1 if field2 is empty.

Add both fields to view in field1, field2 order and select field1 checkbox "exclude from display".

Go to field2 and configure "Show No results behavior". Add field1 replacement pattern e.g [field1] and select "Count the number 0 as empty" , "Hide if empty" and "Hide rewriting if empty".

Now this will produce if else functionality for these two fields.

Answer 2

1. Add the field that you want to show. Select "exclude from display".
2. Add the field that you want to control if you show the previous one. Select "rewrite output". Use the token replacement for showing the previous field. Mark "Hide if empty"
3. There is no three.

PS: Quoted option texts may be not the right ones (I'm looking at a translated site), but you get the idea.

Answer 3

I would normally use the views_customfield module for this kind of thing. Add a third field to your view that is a php customfield, and exclude your second field from display. You can then write a really quick PHP snippet in the customfield that checks to see if the first field is empty and prints out the second field if it is.