Flow Designer: reference the Current Date in an IF condition

[Michael H]

Hi SN Community, 

I have a requirement in the Flow Designer to trigger an IF condition if the date on a record is "on or before the current date".

The flow designer only appears to accept a 'data pill' field as an input.

Is there a way to insert the current date as the comparison without referencing a record field?

If not, is it possible for the ServiceNow add this to the requested functionality list?

Cheers,

- Mike

[SatheeshKumar]

There is no OOB feature to get current date for now! may be they will add in feature releases.

alternatively you can use Run Start Time (Newyork)

[Michael H]

Hi Satheesh,

Thanks, I did think about that as another work-around, but I was unsure about the glideDateTime to glideDate comparison. For all intents and purposes I think this should still work.

[Michael H · Accepted solution]

Update 1.0:

I was able to work-around this by creating a custom 'action' which uses a small script to return the current date.

(function execute(inputs, outputs) {
  
  //Output the current date (glide_date)
  outputs.result = new GlideDate();
  
})(inputs, outputs);

The returned current date from the script can be used a 'data pill' to compare dates.

[jxsaxton421]

Does this get reevaluated? Trying to wait for a certain date or time to be reached.