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Adding days to an existing date field using flow

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Hi,

I am trying to build a flow for a task list that recreate the tasks based on a specific frequency. I have tasks that are weekly, monthly, and so on. Since the tasks don't change, my flow just takes the existing tasks and recreate them while setting the status field to outstanding and adding, for example, 7 days to the due date for a weekly task. In the images you can see that I am telling my flow to filter for only items that are created in the past 7 days to avoid recreating the same task more than once, since the same task gets recreated every week but just with a different due date. However, I can't seem to be able to find an addDays formula that works for this specific case and tried all the solutions given to similar cases online. I think this might be due to using the Get Items action which limits the dynamic fields available to insert in the addDays formula, but I don't know any work around. I would appreciate any help!

Thanks in advance,

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Re: Adding days to an existing date field using flow

HI,
i want to add 28 days to existing date only field and i want to store that output in a date only field of other coulmn.. can someone help me on it.
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Re: Adding days to an existing date field using flow

Hi @Power_Aissam ,

Does your problem still exists?
I afraid that there are some items' DueDateW column value is null, please re-check the column's value in the list.
Also you could add a Check inside your Condition as below:

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Power_Aissam 23 on at

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Re: Adding days to an existing date field using flow

Hi @yashag2255 ,

Yes, there is no null value and that's why I am confused with this error message.
yashag2255 24,580 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Re: Adding days to an existing date field using flow

Hi @Power_Aissam

Can you confirm that there is data in the DueDatew field in SP? The error states that this field is null (has no value/inputs stored)
Power_Aissam 23 on at

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Re: Adding days to an existing date field using flow

Hi @yashag2255
Thanks for your reply. I keep getting this error message even if I changed the column type of DueDateW to date & time. It is quite frustrating. I would apprecite your insights.
yashag2255 24,580 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Re: Adding days to an existing date field using flow

Hi @Power_Aissam

You can try using this expression:

addDays(items('Apply_to_each')?['DueDatew'],7)

Note: You can access the fields for the current item of the list by using the items(loopname)?['column name'].

Hope this Helps!

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