An industry term to denote the state of a variable when a user has not provided data to same. Occurs due to users skipping a given variable, or it not being asked by the document assembly system, or the variable not being relevant. In HotDocs and GhostFill the status of a variable as unanswered can be set via scripting. In HotDocs, GhostFill, and DealBuilder, the status of a variable as unanswered can be tested for. DealBuilder adds an additional state of "Certain/Uncertaion" or "Defer" to a variable answer.