Help with a Reminder MS Flow

[spin-man]

I have a SP List with a Date Field called "Follow Up", and I want to send a reminder email to a list of folks on the day defined in that Field.  I have started this MS Flow, checking every day at 6am, however I am stuck on how to Check that field for all items in the SP List and take action if the date equals the current date.

Basically if List Item has a follow up date of 04/25/2019 and that date the Flow runs is = to that date, send a reminder email.

Any help would be appreciated.

[MattWeston365]

Hi @spin-man 

To work through your requirement, the first thing I've done is to create a variable which I'm going to store today's date in. This will allow me to see what the date is that's being passed in when I test it. I have then used Get Items, and defined the filter query to retrieve only the items within SharePoint that need to be processed today.

The expression used to set today's date is (feel free to format the date however you need):

formatDateTime(string(utcNow()),'MM/dd/yyyy')

Ensure that when you define the odata query that you surround the Today variable with single quotes ' '

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[spin-man]

@MattWeston365 I have added what you have suggested.  However, when I get to the Get Items>Filter Query portion all I can add via dynamic content is the Today variable, it doesn't list all the SP fields to say the Field Follow Up eq 'Today'.  Did a miss something?

[MattWeston365 · Accepted solution]

Hi @spin-man well done, you're pretty much there.

When you create the filter query, you won't see anything to select in terms of the SharePoint field, you need to actually type the internal field name in.

So in your case, depending on how you created the field, Follow Up Date could be something like Follow_x0020_Up_x0020_Date.

To find the internal name of your field

1. navigate to your SharePoint list.
2. click on the settings cog and open List Settings
3. on the List Settings screen, under columns, click on the Column you wish to filter on
4. when the Edit Column screen appears, have a look at the URL which is now in the address bar. You are specifically interested in the querystring parameter "Field". Copy whatever is after that e.g.
   https://xyz.sharepoint.com/sites/MattWeston365/_layouts/15/FldEdit.aspx?List=%7BE2BF6194-4186-49D7-8...DateDemoField

This is the internal name for your field You'll need to take this and use it in your filter i.e. where I have used DateDemoField in my example.

Don't worry if you see _x0020_ in your internal name, that is simply SharePoint encoding for a character space.

Let me know if you need any further help 🙂

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