Schedule different days and different times.

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Hi all,

I have looked through the forum on this topic but do not not find the result I need.

I do a recurring schedule for 2 different days and also 2 different times.

How do i do that?

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VictorIvanidze 12,536 on at

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Re: Schedule different days and different times.

Hi @frixel,

if you are ready to use a recursive appointment created in Outlook as a source, have a look at ScheduledOOF flow for Office 365
as a possible prototype.
CFernandes 8,295 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Re: Schedule different days and different times.

@efialttes Nicely explained..

@frixel You can create conditions in your Power Automate solution with reference to the latest update by @efialttes..

I hope our inputs help you find a solution 🙂

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efialttes 14,756 on at

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Re: Schedule different days and different times.

Hi!

Since for simplicity purposes you wanna keep the logic in a single flow, you can add a Condition action block just after your trigger.

So your recurrence trigger is executed wednesdays, fridays... either at 10:00 or 23:00

Then your Condition action block checks if (Wednesday and 20.xx) or (Friday and 23.xx)

On the true branch you add your logic, leaving false branch empty.

Now, the condition will require WDL functions.

You are familiar with WDL expressions, right? If so, I would consider dayOfWeek() and utcNow('H'). Please also take into account TimeZones, since utcNow() provides current date&time in UTC format, so probably you will need to deal with convertFromUtc() also.

Expressions:

Get current date & time and transform it into your own TimeZone (ROmance Standard Time in my case, list available in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/973627/microsoft-time-zone-index-values)

convertFromUtc(utcNow(),'Romance Standard Time')

Condition rule evaluating the day of the week

dayOfWeek(variables('Now'))

Condition rule evaluating the hour

formatDateTime(variables('Now'),'H')

Once the flow is working as per your requirements you can optionally move this condition as part of the setup of the trigger (there is a functionality call 'Conditional trigger) so the flow will be only executed Wednesday at 20.00 or Friday at 23.00. GReat explanation on this feature here

https://www.timlinenterprises.com/microsoft-power-automate-flow-trigger-conditions/

Hope this makes sense
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Re: Schedule different days and different times.

@frixel

Hey Mate,

The only problem in your scenario is the time. If it would be the same time it would have would be super easy.

I do not think we can set different times as 'At these hours in a' dropdown. Perhaps little bit difficult to manage but two different Flows is the solution for now.

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frixel 901 on at

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Re: Schedule different days and different times.

@CFernandes

yes that is possible but I would rather keep it clear and have it in 1 flow.
I already have so many flows in the workbench.
But if it gets very difficult then that is of course an option.
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Re: Schedule different days and different times.

@frixel Will it not be an option to configure two different Power Automate(Microsoft Flow).

You can easily export\import and reconfigure the recurrence trigger?

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