Create outlook calendar event from Forms data

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I'm trying to make it so that people can select a date then from a "choice" question select a time slot.

For example in the excel doc it comes out like this:

Date: 4/6/2020

Time: 10:30 - 11:00

The time is 1 string so need to separate it into a start time and end time but this is a string and even if I have them select a start and end time in separate questions it is still a string so can't be used for the start and end time when creating the event.

So I'm looking for help with how to convert "10:30 - 11:00" to a start and end time in the correct format.

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Try using Compose action and place an expression with functions substring and IndexOf to get start time and end time.

If you want to have the complete flow, MS already provided a template which you can use directly:

https://us.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/galleries/public/templates/152bc30dde0442db8f12fafee8439ed7/create-an-event-in-office-365-outlook-when-a-microsoft-forms-is-submitted/

You may need to change your format and the flow created from above template to meet your requirements.

This will avoid working from scratch to build something which already exists.

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Krishna Rachakonda

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Below is the error message that it comes back with. As well as showing that it has the [" "] in there as well.

This is the form that is being used to create the data:

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I am using that template already but I would still have the problem that the start and end time is in string format not DateTime.

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Here is the flow:

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Forgive me. But what is a split?

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