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Hi ,
can I get Time and date from server in U.K. format instead of using ‘Now()’ which gets time and date from local device (iPad)
or from a internet central time pool?
thank you
kind Regards
Hi @AndyPowerAppNew ,
You can use canvas app to call the flow to get the utc datetime. The power automate is a cloud service so it gets cloud utc datetime rather than local datetime.
Best Regards,
Wearsky
Hi @v-xiaochen-msft ,
thank you , can I then set this value as default in a text box in powerapps ?
thanks
You can create a variable to save the returned datetime value from flow and use it in Default property of text input control.
Hi @v-xiaochen-msft , I cant get this to work; i would like to get time and data from server or something maybe a custom connect, at the moment i am using
in a text box, but this isnt really ver good because the time differs for some reason
Thanks
Which server? Could you clarify it?
Did power automate not work for you? Have you tried my solution from my first reply?
Hi @v-xiaochen-msft , please can you walk me though how i would set this up ?
Thank you
Here are the full steps.
Create the flow.
Open the canvas app and add the flow.
Add a text input and a button
Set(var,'PowerApp->RespondtoaPowerApporflow'.Run().datetime);Reset(TextInput1)
Text(DateTimeValue(First(Split(var,".")).Result),"dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm:ss")
The text input shows the utc datetime.
Thank you , i already have a button on submit, can i add to this instead, so its one submit ton that does everything?
You can use ';' to do it.
Sample:
Set(var,'PowerApp->RespondtoaPowerApporflow'.Run().datetime);Reset(TextInput1);
SubmitFom(your form)
I have added, but i think there is a issue;
I have aded this to 'textbox'
what have i done wrong here ?
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