REMOVE EXTRA WHITE SPACE AND BLANK DATE PLUGIN - Mar 7th, 2023

When using “if” statements to suppress titles and other information in a viewer if a field is empty, it’s easy for client’s to leave blank spaces in an otherwise empty field and defeat the “if” test. Now, thanks to a plugin (CMSB version 2.04 or above required) written by Dave Edis of Interactive Tools, it’s even easier to guard against this by checking to see if the content is text and not just a space and automatically deleting the space before saving the record so that they can’t interfere with any “if” tests. It works in both text and WYSIWYG fields The plugins won’t delete errant spaces in otherwise blank fields that already exist in your saved records, but you can still check for them in each if statement used on your page. UPDATED VERSION The latest version of Dave Edis’ ExtraWhitespace plugin (CMSB version 2.05 or above required) adds the ability to check for blank date fields to checking for white space in otherwise empty text fields, and eliminate the possibility of returning a Jan 1, 1970 or similar date, if a blank date field is encountered. It is compatible with CMSB version 2.53 and above You can download this version of the plugin from: http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com/downloads/removeExtraWhitespace3.zip

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