A function to check if a block already exists would be helpful

Hey @Jared Robbins, thanks for the suggestion! Could you provide an example of when such a function would be helpful?

Conditionally running a task based on last time it was run. There is no last time if it is the first time.

Gotcha, so in that case it sounds like you would use a

DateTime

block to hold the last run time and that value would be saved on each run. To handle the case where a block document doesn’t exist, you can run

DateTime.load("my-block-name")

in a try clause and catch the

ValueError

that is thrown if a block document with that name doesn’t exist. You then would be able to create the block in the except clause.

Hm, i’ll try that again tomorrow. For some reason it wasn’t catching the error.