Compare date in Sharepoint list with today's date and send out email

[Annnika]

Hello,

I am quite new with Power automate and just teaching myself how to use it. I am trying this for 5 hours now and still struggle with the last bit: The flow below is supposed to send out an email with an attachment on a certain date in a Sharepoint list. I does everything as it should, but I just cant't get the simple condition below to work. I tried so many options on how to enter the expression, I even changed the date in the Sharepoint list +/- one day to see if it's a time zone issue. It is always coming out "false". Does anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong?

Flow

[RobElliott]

@Annnika  The problem will be that the date formats in the condition are not the same. utcNow() is in the format 2020-01-06T06:50:09.3187488Z whereas your SharePoint column will have the date in your local format, for example 2020-01-06. 

So you need to get them into the same format. You could add a compose and in the expression type formatDateTime(utcNow(), yyyy-MM-dd). Then you could use the output of that from the dynamic content box in further actions.

Rob
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[Annnika]

Thank you @RobElliott! I now googled how and where to use the compose function, below is how far I got. The format in the Sharepoint list "Kick-Off" is dd.mm.yyyy . I experimented with that as well in the compose function, but I think my problem is that I can't wrap my head around where the compose function pulls what from and what the logic behind this is, so so far no luck....I keep on trying.

[Annnika]

Oh I did it! I also used the "format" in the equals condition box. I still don't fully understand the logic but I will get there. Next project to not send it on the date but 14 days before the date. Thanks for the help!