Multiple Entries fields, show empty ones?

Question

I am using Entries Field to display related content. I have several Entries Field in an article and i also want to display the fields that are empty, but with their section name.... Is this even possible? I am quite new to Craft, so don't know if I am even in a right direction... Help will be highly appriciated!

{% set assets = craft.entries({
  relatedTo: { 
    sourceElement: entry, 
      field: ['entry','entry2','entry3']
    },
    order:     "sortOrder",
    limit:     null
  })  
%}

{% if assets %}
  {% for asset in assets %}
      {% if asset|title %}
        {{ asset.section.name }}: {{ asset.title }}
      {% else }
        {{ asset.section.name }}: Empty
      {% endif }
  {% endfor %}
{% endif %}

Answer 1

It's probably not possible to get the sections you limited your entries field to from the template and if there's no entry selected that's what you'd need to do.

But what I'd recommend and what's generally a pretty solid approach in such situations is to build an associative array with all the necessary data and loop through that array:

{% set relationsGroups = {
    'entriesField1': 'Heading Relations 1',
    'entriesField2': 'Heading Relations 2',
    'entriesField3': 'Heading Relations 3',
} %}

{% for fieldHandle, heading in relationsGroups %}
    {% set assets = craft.entries({
        relatedTo: {
            sourceElement: entry,
            field: fieldHandle
        }
        order: 'sortOrder',
        limit: null
    }) %}

    {% for asset in assets %}
        <li>{{ heading }}: {{ asset.title }}</li>
    {% else %}
        <li>{{ heading }}: Empty</li>
    {% endfor %}
{% endfor %}