Question on Change Pointers

Hi All,
I am working on changing pointers in HR.
According to the requirement, whenever an inbound IDOC gets triggerred and master data is updated or when there are any changes made to the master data manually, an Outbound IDOC needs to be generated through Change Pointers.
This works absolutely fine, however only those segments in the IDOC structure for which the changes take place is populated in the Outbound IDOC. But I need all the segments to be present in the generated IDOC even if few of them are blank.
I am using the Message Type HRMD_A and the IDOC type HRMD_A07.
Its really urgent, any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi Martin,
Thanks for the reply.
But will the BADI help in populating all the segments in the IDOC structure.
In my case, the IDOC HRMD_A07 has more than 100 segments, so if changes occur in only 3 or 4 segments, will the Outbound IDOC that will be generated contain all the 100 segments with only the 3 or 4 segments with the changed data?
Is there any code for the BADI that I can refer to?
Thanks

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