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Hello to all.

I am very new to Power automate and only now have started exploring. Did a few tutorials, watched a session, and perused some documentation.

In my attempt to create a simple "Block my calendar for 1H" type of button (aim here is when I go to lunch or have an improntu meeting, i just tap the button on my phone and done), I am interested to make the "Subject" of the event to be the Text input of my trigger (the reason chosen when triggering the flow).

Is this possible?

In a side note: In a further advance on this button, would be interesting to know if it is possible to instead of adding a finite number of minutes/days/hours for the "End time" if it would be possible to have the flow prompt for a duration (given the chosen variable of minutes/hours/days).

Thank you for your time.

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Expiscornovus 33,844 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @MFFranco,

It should be possible to find the Reason field in the Dynamic Content list and use it in the subject field.

Below is an example.

RE your second question. You could add a number field for Duration of the meeting and use the addMinutes function in your expression instead of addHours. And instead of adding a fixed amount of time (1 hour/60 minutes) you could use the Duration number field in that same expression.

Below is another example of that.

addMinutes(utcNow(),triggerBody()['number'])

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MFFranco 31 on at

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@Expiscornovus thank you very much. That is in fact much easier to set up for the subject. Thank you.

On to the second part, there is no way to actually have it prompt for a request of how many minutes to set? As the expression would have to be hardcoded to the function and not be with a dynamic input. Example: I have an impromptu call that will predictably take me 20m to do. Would this be possible to do?

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Hi @MFFranco,

Yes, that prompt would be possible. The setup of the second screenshot actually included that.

See a test run example below.

The test end result with a duration of 20 minutes.

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@Expiscornovus oh my. that duration prompt slipped by me. Thank you again.

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