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Retrieving Current Date in Flow Designer

Dan13
Tera Expert

I am trying to retrieve the current date within a flow so I can do a check to see if the current date is on or after a specific date defined by the user during ticket submission. I found a post from a couple years ago that is marked as a correct answer. It describes creating a custom action and gives the script for retrieving the current date. Problem is, I have never created one myself and the action I created is not returning what I need. Here's what I have:

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I set up a step in the flow to send an email with the output value to see if it was working and got this:

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Seems to imply a blank return on the variable.  Here is the flow I created and the If logic I set up

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Here is what the action returns

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I'm guessing that I'm missing an input or output but I'm not sure exactly where my issue is. Or maybe I don't even need a custom action and can do this in an easier way?

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I ended up figuring out what was wrong. I updated the script to create a variable and set that variable to the current date. Then I set the outputs to that variables value.

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I ended up figuring out what was wrong. I updated the script to create a variable and set that variable to the current date. Then I set the outputs to that variables value.

find_real_file.png