When field not found in body the variable is left in document

[Tucker382574074jh3]

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Between August 12th and August 15th 2024 my reports started leaving variables where a field was not found in the body.

My body only includes fields with values, prior to this change the variablelike , {{feature.attributes.`fcomments`}}, would be removed if the field was not found (due to a null value).  Now my report keeps the variable {{feature.attributes.`f_3comments`}} .

Seems like something has changed on Adobes side.  Do I now need to add logic to check to fields?

[Raymond Camden]

For now, yes, perhaps just quickly setting to "". I *kinda* remember some internal discussion on this. Another option is to use a default value in the tag itself, see Default value here: https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/overview/document-generation-api/templatetags/#ta... (or optional)

What I don't see in the docs is a clear, "we do so and so if the value is not there." Nor do I see a release note concerning this if indeed it was intentional. I'll file an issue internally to document this, and if we did change it, to remind us to note such stuff.