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Expression to subtract the date of "created on" from current time

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Posted on by EBMRay 1,710

Hello,
I have created a flow that will filter all the active cases in an entity and display them in an HTML table.

What I want to achieve is the following:

  • I would like to subtract the UTC now() date and the date that the case was created on.
    The default column expression of "Created on" column is the following:

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  • Besides, after the estimation is completed I want to concatenate to the result, "Day" if it's less than one, and Days if it's greater than one.

What could be the expression for this scenario?
Can please someone provide an example?

 

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!

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    Hello @Julien2 

     

    You can use the expression: 

    addDays(utcNow(),-7,'dd/MM/yyyy')
     
    This will subtract 7 days off today's date, for you pre-defined date you would replace utcNow() with your field.
     
    Hope this helps 🙂
     
    Thanks

    Bradley
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    abm abm 32,865 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Hi @Julien2 

     

    Thanks for the screen share.

     

    The below expression will give you the number of days.

    div(sub(ticks(formatDateTime(utcNow(),'yyyy-MM-dd')),ticks(formatDateTime(items('Apply_to_each')?['createdon'],'yyyy-MM-dd'))),864000000000)
     
    Thanks
  • EBMRay Profile Picture
    EBMRay 1,710 on at

    Hello @abm,

     

    Thank you very much for your support!

     

    Regards,

    Julien

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