When Item is Created during after hours send an email.

[Deyo]

I need a flow to trigger when an item is created but only send an email during certain business hours... example from 18:00 current day till 08:00 next morning.  How can I do this?

Michael

[Deyo]

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[v-bacao-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Deyo,

Has your problem been solved?

Do you want to trigger Flow when there is a new item created, but only when the time is in the business hours--send an email notification?

I have a idea here, and maybe it could be a method.

Store "18,19,20,21,22,23,23,00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07" in an Compose-input. Because of the hourly part, you don't need to put "08" into this string.

Get the value of the Hour part of  "Created"( Item creation time) or utcNow(), determine if it is included in this array.

If Compose-Output contains this value, the message is sent.

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Please take a try and also look forward to your approach.

Best Regards,

Barry

[Deyo]

This worked great... just working through the adjustment of time zone versus UTC time.  Thank you so much!

[kheiman]

alternatively you could use the flow management connector to

1. have a flow that turns on your 'after hours' flow at the appropriate time 

2. have the 'after hours' flow that does what it is supposed to do regardless of time because it should only be enabled after hours

3. have a flow that turns OFF your 'after hours' flow at the appropriate time