It's a wrong approach. See my original reply for correct answer.

You can use TYPE("myObject.myObject") = 'O' and !insull(myObjec.myObject)

If you don't have your property defined VARTYPE will give you an error. That's why PEMSTATUS() function was introduced.

>Thanks, that works great. Don't know why my brain is having a hard time with vartype these days. :)
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>>IF VARTYPE("myobject.myproperty") = "O"
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>>>I need to check a object that started out as "empty" object for a specific property. Is there a way to do this without getting an error?
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>>>TIA,
>>>Beth