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Amirin
Helper III
Helper III

Remove time from column

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. 

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And this is my flow

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SamLed
Super User
Super User

Here a small test flow I made for you :

 

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

 

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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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SamLed
Super User
Super User

Hi,

 

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

 

Regards.

Hi.. I am new

Can you please show where I will put it? 

 

SamLed
Super User
Super User

Here a small test flow I made for you :

 

SamLed_0-1690406608622.png

 

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

 

SamLed_1-1690406814520.png

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.

 

If I have answered your question, please Accept the post as solution.
If you like my response, please Thumbs Up.

Hi..

Sadly I got this Error

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SamLed
Super User
Super User

It works on my side...

 

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

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

 

 

Amirin
Helper III
Helper III

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
Super User
Super User

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

SamLed
Super User
Super User

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

SamLed
Super User
Super User

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

Amirin
Helper III
Helper III

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
Super User
Super User

you're welcome, night 😉

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
Helper III
Helper III

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
Helper III
Helper III

Could you please show me your filter array?

 

SamLed
Super User
Super User

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
Helper III
Helper III

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
Helper III
Helper III

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
Super User
Super User

"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
Helper III
Helper III

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..

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