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@empty condition on a date field in an SPO doc library always returns true

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Posted on by RobElliott

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I have a recurrence flow that runs once a day and needs to check whether a custom datetime SharePoint (modern) column, NextReview, is empty or not. After the get items action there is a condition control with:

@empty(triggerBody()?['NextReview'])

but it always returns true, that is it takes the next action on the basis that it thinks the column in SharePoint is empty which is not the case. I've not had this problem with SharePoint lists, it only seems to affect document libraries and seems to happen whatever the column type. It looks to be a bug but does anyone have a suggestion for a way round it?

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Hi @RobElliott,

Your expression has nothing to do with Get items action, so you can't check if the specified field is empty.

Because your current configuration of the trigger does not have anything to do with the Library, it just controls when the Flow will fire.

You should configure your Flow like this. The Condition can be configured in two ways, as below:

Method 1:

Method 2:

Please take a try again.

Best Regards,

Barry

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RobElliott 10,323 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Thanks Barry @v-bacao-msft that works perfectly now with Method 1. I really should have thought of that myself!.

Rob

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