Need help building a flow/ Mail, Sharepoint, and Time of day

[MrAutomate]

I sucessfully built a flow that scans email, and using keywords, sends specific email data to a sharepoint list entry so in the morning, people can focus on priority communications that need actioning.  Great...

Well, I am eating up my flows, and quickly!  I turned to office 365 admin center, Exchange admin center, and could not see a way to COPY all messages received from 4PM EST to 8:00 EST to a folder called AFTERHOURS.  If I could do this, I could then just run the flow once a day against that entire folder, and hopefully use just 1 flow.  If there is a way to do this, please share !

Assuming there is not free way to do the above, any of these possible?

1.  Can a Flow fun a flow ?  Can it enable another flow between certain hours?

2.  Any thoughts on creating a flow that runs just once, at 7:45AM, M-F, that can evaluate all messages received between these hours, or will it use up a flow evaluating each email?

3.  Any better ways to do this I had not considered?  (prefer to avoid machine scheduled tasks and any locally installed Outlook software) 

Apprciate help as I learn the Flow feature!

Thanks all

[v-yuazh-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @MrAutomate,

For your requirement to COPY all messages received from 4PM EST to 8:00 EST to a folder called AFTERHOURS, you could create a flow as below:

The expression in the Condition as below:

@and(greater(formatDateTime(body('Convert_time_zone'), 'HH:mm'), '16:00'),less(formatDateTime(body('Convert_time_zone'), 'HH:mm'), '8:00'))

Best regards,

Alice

[GabrielStJohn]

Hello, @MrAutomate!

Thank you for posting on the Flow Community Forum! Have you had an opportunity to apply @v-yuazh-msft‘s recommendation to adapt your Flow? If yes, and you find that solution to be satisfactory, please go ahead and click “Accept as Solution” so that this thread will be marked for other users to easily identify!

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-Gabriel
Flow Community Manager