How to return a value only if it is set?

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Ambroise
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The value `ongoingTimeCategorizationUpdated` is only present when a couple of conditions are true. This leads to an issue when it's not set.

Is there a way to handle that use case gracefully? I'd like to avoid an extra action, if possible.

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  • Ray Deck
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    Add the extra function step - create variable ongoingTimeCategorizationUpdated and set it to null. This is practically free from a computation point of view. The subsequent create variable call will just update it in place.

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  • Ambroise
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    Okay, that's what I had in mind but I wanted to know if there weren't a simpler way to do this, because it's fine for a single variable, but if the endpoint grows, it can lead to a lot of noise - I was hoping to tell the Return step to only return it if present, something like that.

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