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Transform SQL Date variable into Text

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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

I am building a flow where it takes info from SQL Database and sends an email.

 

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And it works great:

 

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However, I would like to transform the date into a nice format (Something like 12 Jun 2018 instead of 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z or at least to just 2018-06-12).

 

I am very familiar with PowerApps and there I would just use Text() function to transform date into nice date formats. Is there an equivalent function I can use in Flow?

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    v-yuazh-msft Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Anonymous,

     

    You could take a try with expresssion "formatDateTime()" to transform the  2018-06-12T00:00:00Z to 2018-06-12.

     

    I have made a test on my side and have created a flow as below:

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    The expression in the email as below:

    formatDateTime(body('Current_time'),'yyyy-MM-dd')

    The flow would run successfully as below:

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    You could refer to link below to learn more about the workflow definition language:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/logic-apps-workflow-definition-language

     

     

    Best regards,

    Alice

     

     

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    @v-yuazh-msft

     

    Thank you Alice, this is exactly what I was looking for.

     

    Is there a list of all available date time format strings?

     

    I have tried 'dd/mmm/yyyy' which works with PowerApps Text() function but does not work with the Flow.

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