Flow for Email > To Do Task: Need help assigning a due date +2 days from receipt of task

[OldFatDog]

I successfully built a flow that creates a Microsoft To Do task from an Outlook email. 

I want to set a due that is +2 days from the date the To Do task is created.

I'm very new to Power Automate, so I'm a rank newbie when it comes to expressions or variables. As they say in one of my favorite sub-Reddits, "Explain to me like I'm 5" ... :^)

[ChristianAbata]

hi @OldFatDog  you need to add a function call addDays() like this addDays('YourDate', 2). 

[OldFatDog]

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@ChristianAbata wrote:

hi @OldFatDog  you need to add a function call addDays() like this addDays('YourDate', 2). 

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Thanks, Christian. I'm new to using expressions, but it seems like your solution is saying for me to use a "hard-coded" or specific/static start date ('YourDate') rather than (somehow) starting with the date that the task is created... ?

The start day is never a specific/static date. I get about five of these tasks a week, and the due date is always +2 days after I have been assigned the task.

Given that, how do I make it (task creation date +2 days = due date)?

[ChristianAbata]

mmm @OldFatDog  the start day is when you create the task so you can use this formatDatetime(uctNow(),'yyyy-MM-dd') to get the current date and then add 2 days so the full fuctions is like this addDays(formatDatetime(uctNow(),'yyyy-MM-dd'), 2)

[OldFatDog]

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@ChristianAbata wrote:

mmm @OldFatDog  the start day is when you create the task so you can use this formatDatetime(uctNow(),'yyyy-MM-dd') to get the current date and then add 2 days so the full fuctions is like this addDays(formatDatetime(uctNow(),'yyyy-MM-dd'), 2)

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Okay, I just copied and pasted your function above and it isn't accepting the string as valid. What am I doing wrong?

[ChristianAbata]

@OldFatDog  please use only the expresion formatdatetime in a separeted compose an then in other addDays

[v-bacao-msft]

Hi @OldFatDog ,

Please try to use the following expression:

addDays(utcNow(),2,'yyyy-MM-dd')

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,