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I am working on a view with CiviCRM contacts and the custom field I am using in this view is showing n/a instead of empty when rendered. I looked at the views code and it doesn't seem to be coming from the field handler.

Is this something that happens when the information is requested from CiviCRM? Does anyone think it would be a good idea to change this so an actual empty field is returned? With the way things sit now, you can hide the field if it is empty because it never really is empty.

I tracked down the issue to civicrm_handler_field_markup.inc. The check_value call returns n/a if the value passed is empty. I submitted a patch (http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-7780) that checks that return value and returns null if the value is n/a.