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Posted on by silascyro1 4

Dear Community,

 

I am using a flow to create an item in SharePoint list however, I want to format the UTC now() function to look like this yyyymmddhhss.

 

Kindly assist.

 

Silas

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    ScottShearer 25,270 Most Valuable Professional on at

    @silascyro1 

    Use the formatDateTime expression.

    formatDateTime(utcNow(),'yyyymmddhhss')

    Why do you want it formatted that way?  SharePoint uses yyyy-MM-dd

     

     

     

     

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    silascyro1 4 on at

    @ScottShearer 
    I want to create a reference number when an item is being created. I have been requested to create the reference number in that format.

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