Issue with creating new note types

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Dear Anki users,

I am running into a problem with creating new note types which I cant seem to solve myself.

I have created a notetype for my medical studies called “diseases” and added a bunch of fields. Name of the diseas (frontside) and 10 fields for the backside like, pathogenesis, epidemiology, therapy, diagnosis, symptomes etc. Though I dont need to know all of those categories for all of the diseases. For example right know I only want to learn the symptom trias for benigne paroxysmal positional vertigo. I dont need to learn the other fields.
Creating this card, anki shows me all the fields. This is where the problem is. I only fill in the answer for “symptomes” but anki creats cards for all fields, that means I get asked 9 empty cards and only 1 I with content.

Can someone please explain how I can avoid this.

Thank you very much.

Kind regards from Germany
Sanjay

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Conditional replacement sounds like a good fit for you. Card Generation - Anki Manual

Wrap the front template in a conditional to only make card 6 (for instance) if there’s something in field 6.

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