Send an Email when a user completes a date incorrectly

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

This is just a query but is it possible to send the creator of an item an email using flow if they  enter the date in the wrong format in a sharepoint list via powerapps. 

What i mean by that is that I want users to use the format "dd/mm/yy" if they dont then they get an email telling them to.

right now users put in whatever format they want. Ordinarily i would have used a date picker in my powerapp but im too lazy to undo it all at the moment.

Thanks for your help and happy friday 

[v-bacao-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

From your description, the type of the date column of SharePoint list seems to be  single-line text type, not the Date and Time type.

I used Create item action to test. If the date column type is Date and Time, as long as the date of the fill is valid, no matter which format, there is no difference in the format displayed in the list, so I guess the date column may be  single-line text type.

If this is what I speculate, maybe you could use following method to achieve your needs.

  Use When an item is created as trigger

  Use formatDateTime() function to convert the value of the date column to the format you expect.

  Configure Condition to compare the converted value(String) to the value of date column(String).

If they are the same(is equal to), the user-filled date value format is expected, and if they are not the same, the message is sent.

Best Regards,

Barry