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Detect when outlook calendar event has 'remind me' set to 'never'

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I have a flow that sends out an automate push alert the day before an outlook calendar event. I only want it to run when I've specified that I want to be reminded - i.e. 'remind me' is not set to 'never'.

I've added the condition 'Reminder - is not equal to - null' and that seemed to work, but it either doesn't work for all-day events or has stopped working all together.

Is there a better way of doing this? I thought about changing the condition to 'Reminder - is less than - ??' but unsure what the reminder value is (e.g. seconds, minutes, etc).

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efialttes 14,756 on at

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Hi!

Can you share a screenshot of current flow design, so we can see how Condition is defined?

i.e. did you added 'null' as a expression, or as a string?

Thanx!

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nealio 4 on at

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Sure...

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efialttes 14,756 on at

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Hi again!

It looks fine.

You can add a dummy 'Compose' action block for troubleshooting purposes, assign 'Reminder' trigger output as its input and reexecute any of the flows missed. THen you can inspect its value and check if you need to modify your current Condition

I mean, there is an old bug related to recurrence events (trigger is not executed) but I don't think this is your case

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Using-Flows/quot-When-an-upcoming-event-is-starting-soon-quot-trigger-isn-t/m-p/93364#M2558

Hope this helps

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v-bacao-msft on at

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Hi @nealio ,

If you have set Reminder to never, the value of reminderMinutesBeforeStart will be 0.

So you could refer to the following method to configure Flow and see if it helps:

Best Regards,

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nealio 4 on at

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Would zero not equal 'at time of event'?

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efialttes 14,756 on at

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@nealio

I just programmed two 1 hour duration events (Remind me 0 minutes | Remind me never), two one day duration events (Remind me 0 minutes - all day | Remind me never - all day), and a dummy Flow to list them.

My flow output is this one:

[ { "Subject": "Remind me 0 minutes - all day", "reminderMinutesBeforeStart": 0, "isReminderOn": true }, { "Subject": "Remind me never - all day", "reminderMinutesBeforeStart": 720, "isReminderOn": false }, { "Subject": "Remind me 0 minutes", "reminderMinutesBeforeStart": 0, "isReminderOn": true }, { "Subject": "Remind me never", "reminderMinutesBeforeStart": 15, "isReminderOn": false } ]

My dumy flow design:

THis means, in order to distinguish both scenarios, you need to take into account both 'Reminder' and 'Is reminder on' attributes from each event. Please also note the 'Reminder value' when 'no reminder' is chosen is different when I programmed the event as all day (720) and when I programmed it as not all-day (0)

Please also note 'Reminder' is not null in none of these two scenarios. Actually in three of them its value is 0, in the 4th it is 720.

My suggestion is to implement the same 'dummy flow' strategy I am following to inspect what happens with whatever event type you wanna figure out

Hope this helps

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