whats the difference between isblank and isnull?
Use ISBLANK and BLANKVALUE to determine if fields of any type (except picklists) are empty. In previous releases, you had to use different functions depending on the data type of the field. For example, you could use ISNULL and NULLVALUE to determine if an email was empty, but you had to use LEN()=0 to determine if a text field was empty.