Hi Guys, i need help in creating automated email flow when the date is close to 0-7 days

Question

Hi Guys, i need help in creating automated email flow when the date is close to 0-7 days

I have created a recurrence flow with condition:

Is less than or equal to	 formatDateTime(addDays(utcNow(),7),'yyyy-MM-dd')  

This flow actually trigger the emails that is less than 0 days as well

so i created a new flow with condition:

AND
is greater than utcNow()
Is less than addDays(utcNow(), 7)

This flow is not triggering the emails.

Need help.

Attached snap shot of the flow.

Answer 1

Dear @Sumitesh Kumar ,

Thank you for post in our forum.

1.Per my test, the flow run successfully and create email automatically when the date is close to 0-7 days.

2.Test list:
‘meeting day’ is a date column. My test date is 8/25/2022.
Three of items meet the conditions.

3.Test result:

Hope that helps you a little

Should you have any questions or concerns, please do feel free to contact me.

Yours sincerely,
Renjie Sun

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Answer 2

Based on your query, I can see the difference between the working sample and the non working sample is the use of formatDateTime. Try the formatDateTime with the greater than condition and see whether it works.

Is greater than formatDateTime(utcNow(),'yyyy-MM-dd')

Hope this helps