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Posted on by clarkzara

Hello im just wondering how we can trigger a flow to run on specific dates that are stored in a sharepoint list or task? Our scenario is that every month we define a schedule (containing a series dates) and we would want flow to run and perform tasks ONLY on those specific dates. Me initially looking at scheduled flows but this will entail that flow will run everyday and check the entire list to see if there are dates that are equal to the current date in order to proceed the next steps. Im just wondering if there is an efficient way to do this?

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v-alzhan-msft Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @clarkzara ,

Sorry for there is no any way to achieve your requirement to trigger flow based on a dynamic schedule that you mentioned, the function is not supported in Microsoft flow currently.

Best regards,

Alice

Community Support Team _ Alice Zhang
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MichalBlich 10 on at

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Hi,
Not a perfect or elegant solution but I use Schedule Flows (executed once each day) to check if condition is met and that triggers the flow. It checks the dates in the list and if the date is equal to today date the flow send notification to a user.
Regards,
Michal

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vinimareco0311 25 on at

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hi,
Can you be more specific about how to do this please?

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MichalBlich 10 on at

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The schedule flow is set up to run once a day. It compares the current date against a date in a List (e.g. date to complete a task), this is done with the "condition", dates are equal - reminder send, dates aren't equal - end the flow. The main challenge I had with this one was to set up dates to be in the same format.
You can also set it up to compare the current date vs date in a list e.g. +/- 1 month to send upfront notifications or late completion reminders etc.
Hope this helps

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