To compute the coming Friday's date

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Posted on 29 Jul 2019 01:51:21 by kevingeorget

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Hi Flow Users, I'm working on a Flow that help in a weekly report generation in SharePoint. I would need to append the coming Friday's date to the report name. The report generation can be triggerred on a Monday or a Tuesday. E.g. If a trigger the report generation flow today (29/07/2019), then i need to append a coming Friday's date to the file name, i.e. 02/07/2019. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Kevin

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takolota1 4,863 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 19 Feb 2022 at 00:25:58

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Re: To compute the coming Friday's date

How to get the date of the next upcoming day of the week.
Choose a day of the week, ex: 5 for Friday, and get the date of the next Friday starting from utcnow().

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Cookbook/Date-of-Next-Chosen-Day-of-Week/td-p/1466540

I often see requests for timing things a certain time on a certain day of the week and people respond with an expression formula for that person’s requested day of the week and only their requested day of the week. With this, we shouldn’t need to find a different formula for each day.
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RezaDorrani 12,141 on 29 Jul 2019 at 16:30:47

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Re: To compute the coming Friday's date

Hi @kevingeorget

Try this
Since Friday is always going to be the 5th day of the week

We can first do a check to see if todays day is before coming Friday

Condition
sub(5,dayOfWeek( utcNow())) greater than 0

If Yes -
addDays(utcNow(),sub(5,dayOfWeek( utcNow()))) - should give you Friday's date

If No -
addDays(utcNow(),add(sub(5,dayOfWeek( utcNow())),7)) - should give you Friday's date

Regards,
Reza Dorrani

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