Help please! Setting variable based on the date today.

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am building a flow where i want the subjet in a email to be based off the date when the flow is running.

This is what I want the subject to be based on what date it is:

• January before the 15th   -> 2 del Desember
• January after the 15th      -> 1 del Januar
• February before the 15th -> 2 del Januar
• February after the 15th    -> 1 del Februar
• March before the 15th     -> 2 del Februar
• March after the 15th        -> 1 del Mars
• April before the 15th        -> 2 del Mars
• April after the 15th           -> 1 del April 
• .... and so on until December after the 15th -> 1 del Desember (you get the idea)

I solved this by making a lot of conditions, but there must be a more simple way to achieve the same thing!

Maybe someone out there knows an easier way with fewer steps?

This is how I did it:

1. I used the "Compose action to compose an integer of the current month. (January = 1, February = 2 and so on)

2. Did the same for the current day of the month. 

3. Used the "Initialize variable to make a new variable named "Subject"

4. Created a condition based on the Output from the "DagensMåned" that outputs the current month.

5. The condition checks what month it is. If it is January the condition will turn TRUE. I then added a new condition within the "If yes":

6. This condition is based on what day of the month it is and fianlly sets the variable "Subject" to what I want the subject to be. 

7. I repeat the same within the "If no" like this.

I repeat all of this for all the months. So there are 12 parent conditions that checks what month it is, and within all those 12 conditions there is a condition that checks what day of the month it is. In total that is 24 conditions...

Sorry for the long post. But my flow is long... Very long... And I feel like this is a simple task, there must be an easier way to do this?

[Anonymous]

I know the post was very long, but the task itself does not seem very difficult. There are too many steps to my solution. I think the solutuin must be to define a list/array and get the outputs from there, but I have no idea how to do that. 

[AKRogers]

Hello!

I'd use the Switch action to handle these instead of multiple conditions!  You can define all your cases in a single action (Such as if January, do this, if February do that).  You'll still need to substring the value of TODAY beforehand, but Switch allows you to clean up all those conditions.

Take care!

Ashley

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[v-litu-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

You can following these steps to restructure your Flow, it will be simple, and just need serval steps and one condition:

1. Initialize three variables, one is String type named Subject, the two are Integer variables named Month and Day.

int(utcNow('MM'))

int(utcNow('dd'))

2. Create a condition to determine the Day whether is less than 15.

-If yes, add -15 days (sub 15 days), and get the 'M' date formate, then use the split() function to get the Month string.

-If no, use the split() function to get the Month string directly.

Please notice that there is a blank character in the Split function.

split(addDays(utcNow(),-16,'M'),' ')[0]

split(utcNow('M'),' ')[0]

Run result:

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[v-litu-msft]

Hi @Anonymous,

Has your problem been solved?

Do you need to convert the month to Indonesian?

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