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Date Formatting between Power App and Power Automate

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So I have a date picker in my App that I have formatted to a long date. This info gets sent to a flow which then uses the data to populate an email subject line. Problem is that it is long date in the app and short date when it gets to the email. I am sure there is something I need to be doing to the flow, but everything else is perfect bar this one bit, so I am loathe to mess about with it too much? I have tried different combinations of formats ie using date format in the Power Apps (V2) trigger but it doesn't seem to change - it always comes through as a short date. Please be fairly descriptive in any answers as I am fairly new so don't always know where certain fields are etc.

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Gil0 128 on at

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Hi @B33bop ,

In the Subject input, rather than adding direct output from the Power App trigger, add an expression such as:
formatDateTime(triggerBody()?['body/Date'], 'dd MMMM, yyyy'

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B33bop 28 on at

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Apologies for not getting back to you sooner but the above took me down a rabbit hole unfortunately. I assumed that you meant the expression to be added to the body of the email and
['body/Date']
the below was the input from the app (which was named DateReqRcvd) so it was input into the subject line as
formatDateTime(triggerBody()?['DateReqRcvd'], 'dd MMMM, yyyy'
? Apologies that I am that new - I sometimes need it spelling out for me!) I tried numerous combos of the above but in various instances it didn't like the date format coming from Power Apps (at which point I was trying to convert it in Power apps to the ISO 8601 standard and it never seemed to transfer correctly for some reason) saying either it wasn't in the right date format etc. I also tried changing the Input format to Date instead of Text which it was originally (you can see it in my original pic above). As you can see I am a bit confused (but not through lack of trying!) Are you able to provide any clarity or advice on this?

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Gil0 128 on at

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@B33bop I would change the input from Power Apps back to Date and then run a Compose action with the expression to format the date back to long date. (I know it's pretty redundant but the connector seems to modify the date for some reason)

The expression should look like this:
formatDateTime(triggerBody()?['DateReqRcvd'], 'dd MMMM, yyyy')
You can remove the comma if preferred.

Here is an example of a flow I made for testing:
When the flow runs successfully, the date should output as such:

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