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Jay14
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Hi Experts,

I am trying to create flow which will delete items from recycle bin of sharepoint after 7 days. I have attached the photo below.

1st i will do Http request to filter required directory file and to select ID and deleted date.

2nd I used Apply for each with Body.D.Result from json

3rd Compose with item()?['DeletedDate'], item()?['id']

4th I compare Deleted date with formatdatetime and I get output if the argument is true or false

5th If the argument is true I want to delete the item.

Jay14_0-1684791293361.pngJay14_1-1684791392291.png

Please give me suggestion to improve the flow anddelete the item which is more then 7 days

 

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Hi @Jay14 

 

to compare dates try this way:

Nived_Nambiar_0-1684889506064.png

 

expression: 

div(sub(ticks(utcNow()),ticks(formatDateTime(item()?['DeletedDate'],'dd-mm-yyyy'))),864000000000)
 
It checks difference between dates whether or not it is 7 days or more 🙂
 
 

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Hi Nived,

 

Thanks for the superb ideas. I have never used tick function before. It was new and good to learn from you. I tried to apply what you suggested but got below error

"Unable to process template language expressions for action 'Condition' at line '0' and column '0': 'In function 'ticks', the value provided for date time string '17-22-2023' was not valid. The datetime string must match ISO 8601 format.'."

 

Then I read about this and understood it will only take ISO format. So i made few changes 

div(sub(ticks(utcNow()),ticks(item()?['DeletedDate'])),864000000000) I removed formatting since Ticks dont like one. And also removed compose since we were already getting what we wanted.

 

Final flow looks like this 

Jay14_0-1684934399033.png

 

And the flow works like a charm.

 

I have one doubt, why this number ,864000000000 ? Can you help me with calculation ?

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Hi @Jay14 

 

In compose action, you have placed multiple expression which would create two values get concatenated together and that would be coming in outputs.

 

One more thing, you can directly write the expression within the action where you need to use

 

like below

 

Instead of Outputs, use the expression to replace it

Nived_Nambiar_0-1684808986925.png

 

item()?['id']

 

 

Simmilarly for date, we need to delete a file if it is greater than 7 days, did you meant days with respect to current date the flow is running ?

 

Kindly let me know 🙂

 

Hi Nived,

That was really eye opener. Output part is fixed. 

Yes, when file enters the recycle bin it stamps a date for example. 15th May, and today that is 23rd May when the flow runs it should delete only files which are above 7 days in recycle bin.

 

for example there are 3 files of 15th 

and 5 files of 20th. 

 

flow should be able to check every files recycle date (deleted and landed on recycle bin) and only delete which is more than 7 days. 

So once the flow completes 5 files from 20th should be there in recycle bin.

 

Open to new suggestions

Currently I have made below changes:

Jay14_0-1684857684021.png

formatDateTime(item()?['DeletedDate'],'dd-mm-yyyy')
 
for condition : 
formatDateTime(addDays(utcnow(),-7),'dd-MM-yyyy')

Hi @Jay14 

 

to compare dates try this way:

Nived_Nambiar_0-1684889506064.png

 

expression: 

div(sub(ticks(utcNow()),ticks(formatDateTime(item()?['DeletedDate'],'dd-mm-yyyy'))),864000000000)
 
It checks difference between dates whether or not it is 7 days or more 🙂
 
 

Hi Nived,

 

Thanks for the superb ideas. I have never used tick function before. It was new and good to learn from you. I tried to apply what you suggested but got below error

"Unable to process template language expressions for action 'Condition' at line '0' and column '0': 'In function 'ticks', the value provided for date time string '17-22-2023' was not valid. The datetime string must match ISO 8601 format.'."

 

Then I read about this and understood it will only take ISO format. So i made few changes 

div(sub(ticks(utcNow()),ticks(item()?['DeletedDate'])),864000000000) I removed formatting since Ticks dont like one. And also removed compose since we were already getting what we wanted.

 

Final flow looks like this 

Jay14_0-1684934399033.png

 

And the flow works like a charm.

 

I have one doubt, why this number ,864000000000 ? Can you help me with calculation ?

Hi @Jay14 

 

tick function returns a numbers corresponds to a interval of 100 nanoseconds from January 001, so what we are taking here is difference b/w ticks of current date and that of deleted date,  since it givves us the number of interval each of 100 nanoseconds, so we need to convert to number of days , so we use that number 864000000000 which helps to convert to days b/w the dates.

 

Refer the below link for more details 

https://manueltgomes.com/reference/powerautomate-function-reference/power-automate-ticks-function/

 

Hope it helps !

Mark it as solution if it resolves your query !

 

Jay14
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Thanks you are awesome..

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