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I am working on a flow that creates and updates planner task details with a list of information. One piece of information is a date. I initialized the variable as a string and set the variable. See attached. When I update the task details, I use the FormatDateTime expression and use the variable. formatDateTime(variables('xlsxHireDate'),'yyyy-MM-dd') When I test the flow, it fails.

Additional details: I use scope control to combine my steps for error handling. It appears I cannot initiate a variable within a scope.

Thanks for the help!
Initialize variableSet variableExpression Error Error

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Ellis Karim 12,024 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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When reading the Excel file, please set the DateTime Format to ISO 8601
Excel stores the date as integers, in a string. Selecting ISO 8601 should convert the data to a date type.

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Thank you! That worked!

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