A Report Designer layout includes a barcode image bound to a read-only custom field that's sometimes null, and a placeholder/blank barcode still prints even when the field has no value — is there a way to only print the barcode when the field actually has a value, without maintaining two separate layouts?

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Use the Conditions option on that barcode element (accessible via the RMB/right-click menu on the element in Report Designer) to set a condition that only renders the element when the underlying field is non-null. This avoids needing separate layouts for the with-value and without-value cases — the single layout simply omits the barcode image when there's nothing valid for it to encode.

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