Remove time from column

[Amirin]

Hi Guys,,

I have a file that needed to be copied into other file.

But the raw file have a column that have both date and time. 

I only want to get the date and omit the time. 

And this is my flow

[SamLed]

Hi,

Use formatDateTime([Your date field data], 'd') as dynamic content expression. 'd' is the short date pattern format.

Regards.

[Amirin]

Hi.. I am new

Can you please show where I will put it? 

[SamLed · Accepted solution]

Here a small test flow I made for you :

Where the map value is : formatDateTime(item()?['Paid Date'], 'd')

Use the same expression for every date you want to format. Also pay attention to the DateTime format in the "List rows present in a table" action. it must be "Iso 8601" when you get data from Excel.

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[Amirin]

Hi..

Sadly I got this Error

[SamLed]

It works on my side...

formatDateTime(item()?['Paid Date'], 'd') and formatDateTime(item()?['Add Date'], 'd')

Can you copy/paste me the whole error message, it is truncated in your screenshot.

[Amirin]

Here you go

The execution of template action 'Select' failed: The evaluation of 'query' action 'where' expression '{
"Paid Date": "@formatDateTime(item()?['Paid Date'], 'd')",
"Add date": "@formatDateTime(item()?['Add date'], 'd')"
}' failed: 'In function 'formatDateTime', the value provided for date time string '' was not valid. The datetime string must match ISO 8601 format.'.

[SamLed]

Have you selected the correct DateTime format (ie ISO 8601) in the "List rows present in a table" action ?

[SamLed]

Well it seeams you have null value in one or more rows in one or more date columns...

[SamLed]

Replace formatDateTime(item()?['Paid Date'], 'd') by if(empty(item()?['Paid Date']), '', formatDateTime(item()?['Paid Date'], 'd')) 

[Amirin]

I am looking at my sample data.. And I don't have any null value.

Thank you for answering me,, I am now logging off and hopefully tomorrow will find a solution.

[SamLed]

you're welcome, night 😉

[SamLed]

In function 'formatDateTime', the value provided for date time string '' was not valid. The datetime string must match ISO 8601 format.

If there were a value it would have told string "value" was not valid

[Amirin]

Hi.. 

I hope you are up..

On your sample data, can you change your date ? from 26/7/23 to 7/26/23. That is the only difference we have. I will also try it out on my sample.

[Amirin]

Could you please show me your filter array?

[SamLed]

Hi,

Well I'm french, so date format match my location settings, the expression will match yours.

But instead of using short date format pattern you can force the format you want :

if(empty(item()?['Paid Date']), '', formatDateTime(item()?['Paid Date'], 'MM/dd/yyyy')) 

My filter do nothing more than selecting row where Title contains 'Test', I just set it up to get the output to match your flow. 

[Edit] my Excel location settings is french but power automate ones is english, see results 😉

[Amirin]

I found the problem for that last error. And my error comes back again to ISO format. 

here is the error now,,

The execution of template action 'Select' failed: The evaluation of 'query' action 'where' expression '{
"Add date": "@formatDateTime(item()?['Add date'], 'd')"
}' failed: 'In function 'formatDateTime', the value provided for date time string '' was not valid. The datetime string must match ISO 8601 format.'.

[Amirin]

And I found this same problem, but they were not able to figure out the problem.

The responder says here that he must break apart the and rearrange to the correct formatting.

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/The-datetime-string-must-match-ISO-8601-format/td...

[SamLed]

"string '' was not valid"

Empty string again, there is a row with empty date or something you do above select that clear the value...

In the topic you posted, look at the error message, you'll see a date instead of ''. His problem is ISO format and I would suggest him to change his format pattern from dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm to yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ which is the ISO format.

[Amirin]

Hi

Hahaha I found the culprit..

In my create table, I create too many empty tables.

Now I set a filter in which all empty is not listed. 

Thank you for your responses Sam..