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Hi,
Nintex newbie here.
I am setting a string variable from a field in a list item. The field is optional, so I need to know whether the variable contains a value or not.
I am using a 'Run If' action to check the variable, but I only get options to check if the variable is 'equals' or 'not equals' to a value. There is no 'is empty' option.
I created another variable, and I am not setting a value to it, thereby leaving it null, and then I am comparing the two variables. It's not working, however.
Is there another way I can use to do this?
Many thanks in advance!
Kasia.
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Hello again Kasia Certainly, for "Run If" there is no such possibility
I did the following workaround for such purpose:
Regards,
Tomasz
Hi again!
Thanks for your reply.
If you look at my screenshot above, I think I did exactly what you described. And it just doesn't work. The code should not run if the variable is empty, right? But it runs.
Kasia.
Oh... My bad. I haven't deeply read your question, just scrolled the text and thus I got not a complete view sorry.
But on the other hand for the "Text" variables in "Run If" action you do have the option "is empty":
Maybe the variable you are trying to inspect is not a text, but a collection or sth?
I now realized that I used that workaround for the "Wait for Field Change in Current Item" action to check if the field "Check-out" is empty or not.
Regards,
Tomasz
YES! That was the problem. So silly... My variable was a Person, not string. That's why I didn't have the 'is empty' option.
Thank you!
To compare against a Blank variable in Office 365 you need to create 2 variables.
vtxtBlank1 = blank
vtxtBlank2 = blank
Then in the workflow set vtxtBlank2 = vtxtBlank1 which will effectively give you a Null value rather than blank
Then you can use the run if vtxtColumn1 = vtxtBlank2 (null)...
There are a few post regarding this.