Date return issue in Power Automate

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Posted on by Emkay74

Hi,

I am facing an issue with getting a timestamp from Power Automate to show up on my PowerApps Label

I have a label and a button on Power Apps.

On click of the button, it calls a Power Automate Flow. I have added a Respond to PowerApps action at the end and have set the Output type to Date whose value is set as utcnow().

When I test run the flow it does the task and generates the date successfully as i can see in the output however it does not seem to be passing it back to the PowerApps.

I am not passing any parameter to power Automate while I am calling it to run however only want the data back from it after it finishes running.

OnSelect property of the button is set as follows - Set(LastupdatedTime, Myflow.Run())- As you can see there is no parameter being passed to Power Automate

The text property of the label is set as LastupdatedTime

The data type of LastupdatedTime was showing as Boolean and so does the text property of the label so I modified it to as follows to convert it to Text

Set(LastupdatedTime, Text(Myflow.Run()))

After i run the flow from Power Apps it seems to run successfully however the text label shows as False and not the timestamp coming from Power Automate.

I am not even sure if any value is being passed back to Power Apps at all, though the flow is running successfully, either alone or by click of the button.

Any help or guidance would be appreciated.

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When you pass a value back to Power Apps in a Respond to Power Apps you give the value you are passing a name. The actual value will show up as a property of that name in the variable where you capture it. So if your Respond to Powerapps was configured like this screenshot

And you used the following as the OnSelect

Set(LastupdatedTime, Myflow.Run())

Then the value would be

Text(LastupdatedTime.ReturnDate)

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Do i Put the following in the Text property of the label where I want to show the last update time?

Text(LastupdatedTime.ReturnDate)

I did that and it still doesn't show the value passed from Power Automate.

I also tried writing only LastupdatedTime.ReturnDate in the text property of the Label and it still doesn't work

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ReturnDate is what I called the property in my sample screenshot. Can you provide a screenshot of the Respond to Power Apps action you are using? I suspect you aren't referencing the right property name.

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It appears that the Power Automate was referencing some old stuff from the cache so I deleted and initialised a variable to store the date in a particular format and I referenced that variable in the output of a fresh Respond to PiwerApps.

Then In the text property of my label i used my variable that was capturing the output of my flow alongwith the output of my power Automate like LastupdatedTime.Runtimestamp and it worked

Runtimestamp was the output variable in power Automate and

LastupdatedTime was the variable I set in PowerApps to capture the result of my flow.

Thanks a lot !

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