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Flow to trigger Dynamics 365 workflow one x per year - How to write date string?

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Creating a Flow to run daily, check today's date, if does not equal January 1st, end workflow. If equals January 1st, continue Flow. What is the date/string formula to check against to make this run?

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AlanPs1 2,471 on at

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Hi @Anonymous , thank you for posting in the Flow Community Forum!

Here is how I would address this below:

The "Compose DateTime" is a simulation of 1st January this year.

I format it to "01-01" format (MM-dd).

I match it to string for the same "01-01".

This will retrun true if January the 1st so if you set the condition up after your recurrence this should meet your needs.

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Alan, thanks. I've entered the flow as you mention. I continue to return this error upon saving flow.
Thoughts?

Carrie

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Hi @Anonymous (Carrie).

Sorry about the confusion but what I am doing is "simulating" the date hence the use of the "Compose" called "Compose DateTime". You will need to cahnge to wherever you are getting your date from, you haven't mentioned that in your post hence my simulation.

Please see your error:

It says ... "Compose_DateTime ... not defined in the template"

So you need to change:

formatDateTime(outputs('Compose_DateTime'), 'MM-dd')

to ....

formatDateTime(<The name of your dynamics attribute with date>, 'MM-dd')

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Hi @Anonymous ,

Please use Recurrence as the trigger, set the cycle to run Flow once a day.

Check if the current date is equal to January 1, use the following Expression to get the current date and determine if it is ‘01-01’.

Expression reference:

utcNow('MM-dd')

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Please take a try.

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