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Problem with finalising the NO part of a flow

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I have the following flow Capture.PNG

 

The Yes part of the condition is working fine.  But I can't work out how to write the No condition.  Effectively I want the flow to send a message confirming that there is nothing required in the upcmoing time frame set in the "ticks" condition.  Do I just run a parellel apply to each that has "required eq 0"?  I think this is the solution but it seems messy.

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  • Ed Gonzales Profile Picture
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    Re: Problem with finalising the NO part of a flow

    @critski 

    Hi there!  I'm not certain I understand.  If it meets the criteria of your condition, it should go down the 'yes' path.  If it doesn't, it should go down the 'no' path.  Is that not what you are experiencing?

     

    -Ed-

     

     

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  • critski Profile Picture
    34 on at
    Re: Problem with finalising the NO part of a flow

    The Yes path is basically confined to the binary field being 1 

    Toilets_x0020_Required eq 1

    and the date criteria between today

    ticks(formatDateTime(items('Apply_to_each')?['EventDate'],'yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss'))

    and

    ticks(formatDateTime(addDays(utcNow(),14),'yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss'))

    .  If the Binary field does not equal 1 then there is nothing for it to use to evaluate the rest of the condition. 

  • Ed Gonzales Profile Picture
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    Re: Problem with finalising the NO part of a flow

    I think I get it.  Apologies if I'm still missing the mark.

    Could you initialize a variable, or use Compose to set something for the two dates, and then use those further down in both your criteria and your "no" path?

     

    Just a thought.

     

    -Ed-

     

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  • critski Profile Picture
    34 on at
    Re: Problem with finalising the NO part of a flow

    I think I need to change the filter query in the "Get Items"  to filter on the calendar dates.  Then change the condition to be whether the  resulting binary field is yes or no. Im not sure what the resulting query would be something like this?

    Start_x0020_Time le datetime'addDays(utcNow(),14),'yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss')'

      I'm a bit sketchy on how to write the query

  • critski Profile Picture
    34 on at
    Re: Problem with finalising the NO part of a flow

    So I've got the flow down to this.

    latest issue.PNG

    The flow seems to capture all the jobs within the date ranges set but it doesn't seem to like the condition.  Everything comes back as FALSE even when there is a TRUE in there.  

  • Ed Gonzales Profile Picture
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    Re: Problem with finalising the NO part of a flow

    Check the output of your Get Items to verify that you would have a True condition in each instance.

     

    The other thing I've seen is the value for the condition will sometimes need to be an expression.  Meaning that where you have "1" (without quotes), switch the input to "Expression" and then just type in 1.  See below.  I don't know why this works, but it does.20190712a.PNG

     

    Ignore the variable name, I just used a random Flow.

     

    Keep us posted.

    Ed

     

     

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  • critski Profile Picture
    34 on at
    Re: Problem with finalising the NO part of a flow

    Ive sorted this issue using the following:

    latest issue.PNG

    The only bit that is wrong here is that the condition field is a true/false and should be set to 'true' not '1'

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