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Get the "E-Mail send time" as a variable with the [When an email is flagged (V3)] trigger.

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Hi all,

I'm creating a calendar entry when I flag E-Mails in my "sent objects" folder. I use [Current time] to catch the time. This is my appointment start-time in the calendar- Problem is, I need the actual send time of the e-mail which I've flagged in my sent objects folder. Is there a way to get this from the [When an email is flagged (V3)] trigger?

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Hi there,

You can get the received date from the email, which in your case would be the sent date as it is coming from your sent folder.

Instead of trying to insert the date directly into the 'Create Event' action where the property is not available, you first need to pull the 'Received Time' property into a variable. This will then become available to your action and will work as required after formatting the date correctly (using the 'FormatDateTime' expression).

Expression for the 'Start Time' field (which contains to the 'EmailCreated' variable created earlier in the flow):
formatDateTime(variables('EmailCreated'))

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Hi @Anonymous ,
Thank you! This works - However, I've changed the flow a little bit and I assume this can be helpful for other users.
Instead of using the "Get Future Time" I've used this Expression for the End Time:

addMinutes(variables('EmailCreated'),10)

The Get Future time created an appointment from the start of the event till the current date + 10 Minutes. Means, when I flag an E-Mail wich, was sent 3 days ago- the flow created an appointment over the last 3 days.
The addMinutes + Variable did solve the issue for me.

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