Comments on: Filter by an Empty Field

By: Ken K

Ken K — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:56:11 +0000

When I used as second or third filter the empty filter did not work (no errors and it did not filter the field). The empty filter worked only after I placed as the first or only filter.

Thanks

By: Marilyn Greenwell

Marilyn Greenwell — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:58:54 +0000

Trying to do just the opposite of this task with a multiple lines of text field. Any suggestions? I want to display only the items that have content in a certain field/column.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:16:08 +0000

Thank for this.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:50:10 +0000

Thanks so much for this info! I just spent about 20 minutes trying to figure this out and used “contains” instead of “is equal to” and left it empty but that didn’t work. Your solution was perfect!

By: Rik

Rik — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:41:29 +0000

Do you also have a solution when you want to do the same for a content by query webpart on a publishing page? i want to filter by an optional date & time field that holds an custom expiration date (”show on frontpage untill”)…

Kind regards,
Rik

By: Erich O'Donnell

Erich O'Donnell — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:15:36 +0000

I had this problem recently and tried this option, but because I was trying to filter on a rich tex, multiple lines field, it wouldn’t let me filter on a null value. To get around this I had to develop a page that displayed info called through the web service on the list.

Does anyone know of a simpler way to do this?