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I have a string type field that saves a date with the following format

January 5, 2020 9:21 PM

I want to evaluate the following

If the field date is equal to the field date minus 30 minutes

I know it is done in an expression, but I have no idea how to do it.

 

all this with the aim of sending a notification 30 minutes before that date

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    Jay-Encodian 2,920 on at

    Hi @Anonymous 

    This is the expression to parse the string to ISO 8601 format (yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ssZ): formatDateTime('January 22, 2020 9:21 PM','yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ')

    You can then add required minutes to the datetime value: addMinutes(formatDateTime('January 22, 2020 9:21 PM','yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ'),-30)

    Example using the above expressions with the Compose action:

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    Ref date comparison... it's a little hard to advise as I don't follow your logic, it's impossible for a value to be equal to itself minus a value?!? 🙂

    I'm guessing you would compare against another datetime value or the current time (utcNow())...

    HTH

    Jay

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