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JosephNierenberg

Iron Contributor

Jan 13, 2022

Adding Days

I am unable to figure out how to do something that is probably not very difficult.... In a Flow that creates a list item, I would like the Start Date to be the date that the trigger fires, and the Du...

RobElliott
Jan 18, 2022
JosephNierenberg you said you wanted the date that the trigger fires. That is today which in Power Automate is the expression utcNow(). So you add that into the expression as I showed in my previous post, you don't/can't select it.

Rob
Los Gallardos
Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User

Silver Contributor

Jan 15, 2022

JosephNierenberg

Rob
Los Gallardos
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JosephNierenberg
Iron Contributor
Jan 18, 2022
RobElliott That looks simple enough, but it doesn't seem to work.

1. The only dynamic choices available for the "Due Date" field are Modified and Created. This is fine for my purposes. "Created" is defined in the dynamic expressions options as "When this item was created."

2. If I add 'Created' first and then try to add days it doesn't work. Adding the addDays function and then clicking the 'Created' expression as the timestamp in the addDays function results in this:
addDays(triggerOutputs()?['body/Created'])
which makes no sense to me.

3. If I just add the expression addDays() then 'Created' is not an available option to insert as the timestamp. If I add it anyway, to produce
addDays (Created,1)
then the system returns an error that the expression is invalid.
- RobElliott
  Silver Contributor
  Jan 18, 2022
  JosephNierenberg you said you wanted the date that the trigger fires. That is today which in Power Automate is the expression utcNow(). So you add that into the expression as I showed in my previous post, you don't/can't select it.
  
  Rob
  Los Gallardos
  Microsoft Power Automate Community Super User

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