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Having issues with comparing conditionals within an apply to each statement

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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

 Hi, i'm new to Microsoft Flow and have created one automation already. I'm pulling from a sharepoint list that compares new hire dates with current dates. I'm then taking that new date and subtracting the year. I'm having issues figuring out how to do the subtract statement. I already have the comparision done and working. Adding the new subtraction variable can only happen in the top level. When I try to create the (StartDate) variable it will create a new apply to each which also fails. I only need to compare the years (2021 to 1998). Any help would be appreciated

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I'm currently getting an error message that ticks translates to a string, do I have to convert to integer to get it to work correctly?

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Any help or information would be greatly appreciated. 

 

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    I found a solution to this by converting the utcnow date and time (string) to int and doing the subtrahend then. The code looks like: 

    sub(int(utcnow('yyyy')), int(formatdatetime(item()?['StartDate'], 'yyyy')))
    I just needed to compare the years but if someone wants to compare the days or months they would change the 'yyyy' to 'dd' or 'mm'. 

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