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I am very new to flow and I'm trying to create a flow that requests for a [Start Date] and [End Date] when triggered.

Then I wish to use those dates in conditions so that I can populate a database with the document properties (from Sharepoint) where the document date is between the two dates.

I have been trying to use the following condition, but it isn't identifying any documents that fulfil the criteria even though I know there are some that do.

@and(@greateror equals(items('Apply_to_each')?['Document_x0020_Date'], triggerbody()?['Start Date'], ''), @lessorequals(items('Apply_to_each')?['Document_x0020_Date'], triggerbody()?[End Date'], ''))

Any help with this would be very much apprecaited.

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Hi @Back2Basics,

What’s the trigger in your flow? How do you input Start date and End date when triggered?

To test this issue, I created a flow with the Button trigger, input Start date and End date using two text fields.

Then get file properties from a document library.

In the condition, input the following code:

@and(greaterorequals(items('Apply_to_each')?['Date'], triggerBody()['text']),lessorequals(items('Apply_to_each')?['Date'], triggerBody()['text_1']))

Note: triggerBody()['text'] is the Start date, triggerBody()['text_1'] is the End date.

The code works fine and documents within the two dates will be filtered out.

Please take it for a reference and try again on your side.

Best regards,

Mabel Mao

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Thanks Mabel Mao.

Yes, I have set up a button trigger to get a user to input the start and end dates as you have done.

Thank you for the condtition code. I have used this and updated 'Date' to 'Document Date' as well as 'text' and 'text_1'. It works in terms of it being a workable condition, but I still get no returns, despite knowing that there are documents that fit this criteria. I thought it might be the date format that I'm using, but i've tried various formats and it's not working - do you know what format I should use for the 'start date' and 'end date' texts?

I have tried: dd/mm/yyyy, mm/dd/yyyy, yyyy-mm-dd

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