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SO I just finished watching Import & Update Excel Values To SharePoint With Flow. This was very helpful. I am having an issue on update_item action on the date fields. Not sure why as the same functions I am using work fine on the create_item action. See below:
The "Get Items" work fine. It gets the value and then tests for an empty condition.
The problem lies in the next step. And I can understand why this would fail on update and pass on create.
I have the same function on the update as I do on the create. The error message is on the int function and is as follows:
Not understanding why it would work on create and not on update. At first, I thought this was a case of copying and pasting; but no. I get this error regardless. Any ideas?
the float fails as well
I changed the int to a float and still get a similar message on the update:
Hi @fhtech,
Since the date formate is the date with time, if you create item it will not have a problem, but if you update it, the int() function can not process the string.
You should add a format at the end of the addDays expression when you create an item, so do it need in the update item.
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Answers (addDays('1900-01-01T00:00:00Z',sub(int(item()?['Date']),2),'MM-dd-yyyy')
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On the create side the value is null, i assume on the update site it has some value so that is likely why it is failing because it does not like the date value you are passing as a string.
what type of column is it, is it date or date/time? If date/time you may need to use float as per this example: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Excel-dates-turned-into-integers/td-p/130364
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