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I need to rebuild an old SharePoint Designer flow in Power Automate. The problem is that I have no documentation whatsoever and so I’m having trouble trying to figure out some of the actions. The fact that I’m a SPD newbie doesn’t help. I have two questions:

  1. In SPD there is a condition saying “If Variable XXXX (date field) begins with 1/1/0001”. I am not sure what “1/1/0001” stands for. Is it just “empty”? If so, what the Power Automate equivalent for this would be? Should I go for “null” expression?
  2. There is an action: “then Start Verification process on Current Item with Current Item:Initiator”, where “Verification” is a task. If you click on this, you will be presented with “Task Information”, “Settings” etc. It seems to me like a separate flow nested in the main flow. I have never dealt with tasks within flows. How do I go about it in the Power Automate environment?

I tried to google a solution but no joy. There are some resources telling what "1/1/0001" is more or less, but there are no straightforward answers. I found someone stating the following: "Date fields are never truly empty, so the option doesn't exist. An "empty" date field is actually set to 1/1/0001" But even so, I still don't know what the Power Automate equivalent for this should be.

When it comes to "tasks" within flows, I found no answers.

Lukas
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  • Yes, as far as I am aware back in the day 1/1/0001 was set if you left a date field empty. However, nowadays these things can be handled differently. Depends a bit on what you want to do really when this field is empty? (sorry for the consultant answer, lol) For the second part I would suggest to use the out of the box approval connector. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/get-started-approvals Can you share a bit more details on what process you are trying to automate? – Expiscornovus Feb 21 '23 at 13:26

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