Showing an empty string in DataMiner when the internal value is not empty.

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I'm working on a protocol, and we want it so that when the user sets a cell in a table to a specific value, it will send an empty string to the device. The issue is that we want DataMiner to display a blank space in the cell while the value is set to this specific value to let the user know that the current value is empty. I have ideas as to how to handle this, but they all seem to have some drawbacks, and I am wondering if anyone else has ever dealt with doing this before.

Bautista Solanet [SLC] Posted new comment 15 hours ago
Miguel Obregon [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] commented

Hi Bautista,
Just wondering, is it not an option to use exceptions?
https://docs.dataminer.services/develop/schemadoc/Protocol/Protocol.Params.Param.Interprete.Exceptions.Exception.html
You could send an empty string to the device, and the connector can map that empty string to an exception value.
Bautista Solanet [SLC] commented

Thanks Miguel,
One of the ideas I had was to have the value map to an exception that will display an empty value.
Given that DIS complains when I do this however, it does seem like bad practice. That being said, it does achieve the desired results.