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How to obtain the earliest date of a list of fields (date type) of a record in sharepoint including the field title

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Posted on by rcardenasb 45

I have a list of fields in sharepoint that contains fields with dates, how can I get the earliest date along with the field title of each record?

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  • ckalbfleisch Profile Picture
    ckalbfleisch 34 on at

    In the get items action put “Modified asc” to list the items in ascending order by date. Or “Modified dsc” to list descending order. You could also add a value for Top count so if you wanted oldest or newest 10, etc. 

     

    if this helps please mark as confirmed solution. 

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    rcardenasb 45 on at

    Thanks for the tip, however it is more to indicate which date field of 6 date fields (Date1, date2, Date3, etc.) contains the minor date in the same record and I don't think Order By will help me, I'm seeing if there is any quick way to sort based on the column and the date of that column

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    ckalbfleisch 34 on at

    In that case you might be able to do it within SharePoint with a calculated field.

    Or in Power Automate you could use formatDateAndTime to convert each date into a string like yyyyMMdd and then sort that list or have an if statement to get the earliest or latest value. Hope this helps.

  • v-qiaqi@microsoft.com Profile Picture
    v-qiaqi@microsoft.com Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @rcardenasb,

    I don't think we have a way to capture the ealiest date from a record using a direct and quick way.

    We need to list all the date colums from a record and compare it one by one to capture the earliest date value.

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