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Calendar Reminders

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Posted on 1 Oct 2019 05:31:33 by Slloyd
A little new to Flow and beating my head against the wall regarding filtering Get Items using OData against a Calendar Start Date/time field. Users are requesting a reminder 3 days, 1 day and 2 hours before event on a SharePoint calendar if the event also has a status of "Not-covered". I have setup a recurring daily trigger to check the list. What's the best way to perform the date tests? Thanks!
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    v-bacao-msft on 02 Oct 2019 at 02:01:40
    Re: Calendar Reminders

     

    Hi @Slloyd ,

     

    Please check the following blogs, which mentions that there is currently no support for formatting fields in Filter Query, and the Choice column is not supported in Filter Query. 

    https://veenstra.me.uk/2018/11/12/microsoft-flow-filter-queries-in-sharepoint-get-items/

    https://www.chakkaradeep.com/2018/05/01/deep-dive-into-get-items-and-get-files-sharepoint-actions-in-microsoft-flow/

     

    Best Regards,

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    Slloyd on 01 Oct 2019 at 21:01:23
    Re: Calendar Reminders

    Thanks! Your solution works. However, if I can futher filter in using the Get Items filter query that would be awesome. Here's the expression I'm trying to combine in my filter query which is not working.  

     

    formatDateTime(item()['EventDate'],'yyyy-MM-dd') eq addDays(utcNow(),1,'yyyy-MM-dd') and Coverage_Status eq 'Not-Covered'

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    Slloyd on 01 Oct 2019 at 13:31:21
    Re: Calendar Reminders

    Thank you very much for the quick response! I will give this a try. One quick question... is there any way to do the filtering via Odata in Get Items setup so as not to pull all the items?  

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    v-bacao-msft on 01 Oct 2019 at 07:18:13
    Re: Calendar Reminders

     

    Hi @Slloyd ,

     

    You could use multiple Flows to correspond to these scenarios.

    3 days, 1 day before the event, the two Flows are similar, the only difference is to change the parameters in the addDays() function to 3 or 1.

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    For "2 hours before event", I don't have a suitable solution for you currently. If it is accurate to the hour, it seems that it is difficult to achieve through the current function.

     

    Best Regards,

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