Post #14 of our Build Flows Faster series covering our new utility actions for Power Automate. We will publish many more posts and accompanying videos over the coming weeks, but today’s lesson is about formatting date values in Power Automate.
Our utility actions are targeted at helping you build flows more quickly with less complexity, and they brilliantly only use 0.05 actions from your Encodian Flowr and Vertr subscription allowance. For example, under a standard plan that permits 500 actions per month (uses), you could use the utility actions 10,000 times!
The ‘Format Text Case‘ utility action for Power Automate formats the text value per the selected formatting option. The action provides the following text formatting options:
As with many of our utility actions, there are a myriad of scenarios where you may need to format text cases. Therefore, we’ll focus on how the ‘Format Text Case‘ utility action works as opposed to a specific scenario. Consider the following basic and manually triggered flow:
1. Add the ‘Format Text Case‘ utility action to the flow
1.a. Text: Select the text value to format. For this example, I’ve selected the ‘Text‘ property provided by the trigger action.
1.b. Action: Set the formatting action
Now, let’s do something simple with the formatted date value. I’ll configure the flow to send an email:
2. Add the ‘Send me an email notification‘ action
2.a. Subject: Configure the email subject value as required
2.b. Body: Configure the email body as required, including the ‘Result‘ property provided by the ‘Format Date‘ utility action
Upon execution, the following email will be generated:
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If you require further advice or support regarding Encodian utility actions, please email our support team at support@encodian.com where the team would be delighted to help.
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