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Has anyone found the ability to add and use workflow variables in the new Microsoft Flows?
I have managed to work with functions by putting them between quotes, like so:
"@{addhours(utcnow(),4)}"
Variables within the flow are not currently supported, but will be added in an upcoming release. Thanks for the feedback!
@merwan what's the status on this feature? I'm trying to do some simple calendar event creation and am not able to leverage the same syntax I see in existing templates.
Hi Patrick, we're working on this functionality and plan to release it soon. Thanks for your patience and feedback.
Thanks @merwan! I was able to get past the above issue leveraging a time API (www.timeapi.org) and HTTP request but variables and inline-functions would be greatly appriciated!
Hello, are there news on this feature??
Any updates? This seems like a more fundamental and essential business feature for minimal workflow, much more than connecting to twitter!!!
Adding a first class function editing experience in Flow continues to be on our backlog and something we plan to address in the future. However, in the meanwhile, here's a workaround you can employ.
1. In your flow, add a compose card.
2. In the Compose card, you can execute workflow functions specified here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/logic-apps-workflow-definition-language
3. An example to get today's date in the format of 2017-05-16, I would do: "@utcnow('yyyy-MM-dd')"
I just found new actions: "Initialize variable", "set variable" and "increment variable". When initializing a variable, the following fields must be filled: name, type (boolean, integer, floating, string, object, matrix) and optionally value. I guess "Increment variable" is only valid for integers and floats, according to https://flow.microsoft.com/es-es/blog/error-handling/
However, when dealing with "set variable" there seems to be a bug according to https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/I-Found-A-Bug/Error-Variables-Set-Variable-quot-The-request-content-was/m-p/37207#M383
I'm trying to use "Set variable" without success.
Do you know how it works?
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