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Posted on by mphilip 4

Hello Everyone!

 

I am fairly new to PowerAutomate but have some solid flows going to far. I wanted to ask if anyone has encountered the following:

I need to populate a text field with a value of todays date minus 2 years. For example at the date and time of posting this I have todays date as 03/22/2022 and need the value 03/22/2020. Does anyone have any idea how I can accomplish this. I have no problems working with UI elements and variables in automate just don't know how to calculate that date.

 

Thanks to any contributions in advance!

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    VJR 7,635 on at

    Hi @mphilip 

    The Add to Datetime action will give you that

     

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    mphilip 4 on at

    Wow! I was not expecting this to be the solution so I never tried lol. Thank you so much for the comprehensive and speedy reply.

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