Take a look at my video and comments in this post
Result of placing the NULL symbol in the Template’s Schematic. After adding other parts to Schematic, the Fields remain in tact as desired and are usable/editable for All the Parts/Symbols even after deleting the NULL part.
An Example of my BOM’s Away before setting items to be ‘Hidden’. Shows many fields that I created - I don’t need them so, I hide them and comment out code…)
They were all part of the NULL symbol before not needing them…

