Convert numeric month to text month

[IMAX99]

We have files being emailed in (1 per email) and the attachments are name eg 01-06-20. I would like to save the attachment out to SharePoint to the existing structure which has separate yearly folders with monthly sub-folders. I can get it all to work bar for one thing... The monthly folder needs to be as text ie Jan, Feb..... Dec. I can extract the numeric for the month but don't see how to get this as a text month.

Any suggestions? 

[rsaikrishna · Accepted solution]

@IMAX99 

You can place a Compose action and use the following expression:

formatDateTime(utcNow(),'MMMM')

In the place of utcNow(), you can use your date field.

It will show the output as full month name ex: June.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Regards

Krishna Rachakonda

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[rsaikrishna]

@IMAX99 

If you want as string, you can have the expression as below:

string(formatDateTime(utcNow(),'MMMM'))

Regards

Krishna Rachakonda

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[ScottShearer]

@rsaikrishna 

Great idea!  However, I don't believe that conversion to a string will be necessary - the output of formatDateTime is already a string.

[IMAX99]

I had already tried something along these lines but to use formateDateTime I have to parse a date value. What I have been doing is splitting the email subject into an array so that I have the day, year and month values as separate elements in order to place the attachment into the correct folder. I was then trying to parse the month value eg '06' and using the suggested method this caused an error.

I guess I'll need to extract the date value and parse that.