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Posted on by NoahB 4

How does one use the outlook received tiem condition. I want to make a flow that sends a text when I get an email during work hours but I can't quite figure out how to get the timing right. I've tried to have it go when time received contains monday,tuesday,wednesday,.... and I've tried time is greater that 8 and less than 5, but none of this seems to work. Any help on the formatting of this would be very much appreciated.

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    v-bacao-msft Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @NoahB ,

     

    Please refer to the following method to configure Flow.

    • Use dayOfWeek() function to determine which day of the week. 0 stands for Sunday and 6 stands for Saturday.
    dayOfWeek(triggerBody()?['DateTimeReceived'])
    • Use expression below to get the HH of the Received Time.
    int(formatDateTime(triggerBody()?['DateTimeReceived'],'HH'))
    • Use Condition to determine if the values obtained above are all in line with expectations, if so, send the message.

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    Hope it helps.

     

    Best Regards,

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    NoahB 4 on at

    Thank you so much for your help however, after implementing this I keep getting flow failures:

     

    InvalidTemplate. Unable to process template language expressions for action 'Condition' at line '1' and column '2589': 'The template language function 'contains' expects its first argument 'collection' to be a dictionary (object), an array or a string. The provided value is of type 'Integer'.'.

     

    After doing some googling around I found that I needed to set the "Include Attatchments" tab to yes. I did that but I am still getting the failures, as well as the texts coming through outside of the designated times. Any insight would be very much appreciated.

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