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Posted on by CRMCS 19

I am running the following flow to create items in SharePoint list from Excel files and I am receiving an error on the If expression I am using for the Date Returned column. I added the expression because I received an error for having no dates in some items.

 

The other date columns are pulling in as expected, but they all contain a date so no If expression was needed. I do have the DateTime format set to ISO 8601.

 

Is there something else I need to add to the IF statement? 

if(equals(item()?['Date Returned'],''),null,item()?['Date Returned'])

 

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Error Message:

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    Sundeep_Malik 6,501 on at

    Hey @CRMCS 

     

    Use the following expression it might help:

     

    if(empty(item()?['Date Returned']),null,addDays('1899-12-30',int(item()?['Date Returned']),'yyyy-MM-dd'))

     

    Link for Handling Excel Dates in Power Automate:

     

    https://www.shanebart.com/ms-flow-excel-dates/

     

    I hope this helps 🙂

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    CRMCS 19 on at

    That worked! Thank you!

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