That Length formula doesn't work. I put the following code in the top of my page. ProcessOverview Value = "$doc.getValue('processOverview')" ProcessOverview Length = $doc.getValue('processOverview').length() I then put a value of "a" in the processOverview textArea and saved it. The result is below: <http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/file/n7589776/ProcessOverview_With_Value.png> I then emptied the processOverview textArea of anything and saved it. The result is below: <http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/file/n7589776/LengthStill1.png> I was wondering if the system is inserting a carriage return or something in the empty field. So I looked at the HTML code and it only has a <p> node above the empty text node. -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/Detect-Empty-Fields-tp7589773p7589776.html Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.