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Create date passed to Flow appears as number string

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Posted on by Coopedup 355

I'm trying to pass the ThisItem.Created date into Automate but oddly my variable puts it as a numerical string?? 

 

Flow.Run(ThisItem.ID, ThisItem.'Created')

 

Created in this example should be 20/07/2021 10:52

 

I feel this should be straight forward but has me stumped!!

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    Pstork1 69,657 Most Valuable Professional on at

    The handoff between Power Apps and Power Automate is done via JSON and there is no data type on the receiving end for a date.  You are also putting it into a Variable and variables also don't have a data type for date.  To get the right date in Power Automate you should format it as an ISO 8601 string to pass it as a parameter.  Use the Text() function around your second parameter and choose an appropriate datetime format string from the following list.

    Text function in Power Apps - Power Apps | Microsoft Docs

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