Hide Group when all fields empty

True, this is annoying.

Whether a field is 'empty' (has no output) is decided at render time.
Fieldset-based display of fieldgroups currently use core's 'fieldset' FAPI element, whose theme function doesn't have this feature.

Fixed by using our own 'fieldgroup_fieldset' elements, that don't display anything is content is empty.

The change requires the theme registry to be rebuild, obviously.

Nope, just grab CCK's RC release on http://drupal.org/project/cck, and empty your site's caches
(using devel.module's 'empty cache' if you have devel, or the 'clear cached data' button on admin/settings/performance)

Hi, I'm trying to acheive the same thing: hide fieldgroup display if inside field is empty.
I got the last version of cck, but the fieldgroup still appears even if there is no content in it.
Is there a way to do this?

thank you for your help

same issue here
6.x-2.6
did you forget to fix it in the new release?

I'm also using 6.x-2.6 and field groups that contain only empty fields are still being displayed. The 5.x fieldgroup.module had this code in fieldgroup_nodeapi():

        $visible = FALSE;
        foreach ($group['fields'] as $field_name => $field) {
          if (isset($node->content[$field_name])) {
            $node->content[$group_name][$field_name] = $node->content[$field_name];
            if ($node->content[$field_name]['#access'] && !empty($node->content[$field_name]['#value'])) {
              $visible = TRUE;
            }
            unset($node->content[$field_name]);
          }
        }
        if (!$visible) {
          // Hide the group, because the fields are empty or not accessible.
          unset($node->content[$group_name]);
        }

I don't really understand the 6.x module yet, but it's changed significantly, especially fieldgroup_nodeapi(). Should groups with nothing but empty fields still be hidden, or was that removed from 6.x-2.6?

definitely a regression between the 5.x and 6.x versions-- i haven't figured out the best way to fix it yet, but I'll post a patch if I do.

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I can't reproduce this problem. If all fields are empty, the fieldgroup fieldset is not displayed. I had an old dev site that hadn't been touched in a while, so I tried it with CCK 2.2, 2.6, and 2.9. All with the same result: the empty fieldgroup was never displayed.

Could there be some other fieldset theming function from some other module or theme that is causing problems for others?

Possibly related:
#963180: Fieldgroup Templates
#599772: slate_fieldset in template.php causes problems with cck collapsable fieldsets

Have you tried with a link field? Perhaps it's the url/title combination which causes this outputting of empty fieldsets in my site.

I was running into this problem, and it turned out that my content-field .tpl files were the cause of it. Several of my field .tpl's had extra line-returns in them before and/or after the <?php if (!$field_empty) : ?> code block. I was able to solve it by going through all of my content-field .tpl's and removing any extra line-returns so that there was a maximum of one line return between the php code blocks.
ie- changing this:

<?php ... ?>
  
<?php ... ?>

to this:

<?php ... ?>
<?php ... ?>

fixed my problem.

I am still getting this.

I gave admin permissions to some fields, put them in a group labelled "Admin" and the empty Admin group shows up for those users who cannot see the fields in there.

#1319942: Conditionally show/hide field groups that have no visible fields (due to access control)

field_group for d7 is a completely different module and as far as I know, this issue still exists for the d6 version of fieldgroup that belongs to cck-- there's no legit reason to move it. Rather you should create a new issue in the new module's issue queue.