In plain English
It refers to a field that contains something rather than nothing. Any content counts, as long as the field is not blank and does not have no value.
In context
Here, it labels a filter condition that selects items whose field contains some content or a value instead of being blank or having no value.
- Situation
- Using dashboards, tables, filters, sorting, views, and bulk controls
- What it communicates
- labels a nonblank-value filter operator
Meaning limits
By itself, the term does not say what the content is, only that something is present.
Examples
“The comment field is not empty; it contains only a dash.”
“Set the Notes filter to is not empty to keep entries whose note field has something in it.”