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Using a Datepicker Date Value as Flow Input

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Posted on by Michael90

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i recently build and app that, n order to start requires the User to make 2 date entries before it can start. Thos ehave to be in the YYYY-MM-DD format as the flow requires that exact format to do its thing. When I use a textfield asking the User to put in times manually in the requested format and connect the button with the text-textinput1/2 value, everything works perfectly fine.

However when i try to make it more comfortable and offer datepicker instead of textinput fields it gets messy. Although i changes the format(display format) of the date picker to yyyy-mm-dd i cant get it to forward that to the flow. Instead it will always send DD/MM/YYYY. Im not sure what i have to do so i can get the right input format to my flow.

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CarlosFigueira Microsoft Employee on at

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You can use the Text function to convert the selected date in the date picker to the format that the flow expects. Something along the lines of
MyFlow.Run(Text(DatePicker1.SelectedDate, "yyyy-mm-dd"))

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Thank you it worked perfectly

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stefano77 12 on at

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sorry but I'm not an expert. where is this command inserted? directly into the FLOW , where?

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@stefano77
you use that command in power apps, OnSelect of the button to run your flow

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schwibach 2 Moderator on at

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@CarlosFigueira

I had this problem, too.

It was a bit frustrating that the value of the datepicker cannot directly be handed over to Power Automate.
Maybe, it would be a good idea to include this in the documentation for the modern date picker control.

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