How to Compare Date/Time Field with Current Time in Flow Designer?

[BibekP]

Hello Team,

How can I check if a Date/Time field is equal to the current date&time in Flow Designer?

I’m working with Workflow Studio (Flows) and need to compare a Date/Time field with the current date&time. I want to execute actions based on whether the field matches the current time.

How can I access this field correctly in a Flow Designer script, or is there a better way to implement this functionality?

Any help or examples would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[JenniferRah]

I have an action that does this. You could modify it to function differently to meet your scenario, but here is how mine works.

This is the Input step:

Here is the script step:

Here is the script:

(function execute(inputs, outputs) {

  try {
    var startingPoint = new GlideDateTime(inputs.start_date);
    var endingPoint = new GlideDateTime();
    if (inputs.end_date)
      endingPoint.setValue(inputs.end_date);

    if (startingPoint.before(endingPoint))
    {
      var startValue = startingPoint.getNumericValue();
      var endValue = endingPoint.getNumericValue();
      var difference = endValue - startValue; // difference in milliseconds

      outputs.difference_minutes = parseInt(difference/(1000*60));
      outputs.difference_hours = parseInt(difference/(1000*60*60));
      outputs.difference_days = parseInt(difference/(1000*60*60*24));

      var weekCounter = 0;
      var temporaryDateWeek = new GlideDateTime(startingPoint);
      while(temporaryDateWeek.before(endingPoint))
      {
        temporaryDateWeek.addDaysUTC(7);
        if (temporaryDateWeek.before(endingPoint))
          weekCounter++;
      }
      outputs.difference_weeks = weekCounter;

      var monthCounter = 0;
      var temporaryDateMonth = new GlideDateTime(startingPoint);
      while (temporaryDateMonth.before(endingPoint))
      {
        temporaryDateMonth.addMonthsUTC(1);
        if (temporaryDateMonth.before(endingPoint))
          monthCounter++;
      }
      outputs.difference_months = monthCounter;

      var yearCounter = 0;
      var temporaryDateYear = new GlideDateTime(startingPoint);
      while (temporaryDateYear.before(endingPoint))
      {
        temporaryDateYear.addYearsUTC(1);
        if (temporaryDateYear.before(endingPoint))
          yearCounter++;
      }

      outputs.difference_years = yearCounter;
    }
    else
    {
      var startValue = startingPoint.getNumericValue();
      var endValue = endingPoint.getNumericValue();
      var difference =  startValue - endValue; // difference in milliseconds

      outputs.difference_minutes = parseInt(difference/(1000*60));
      outputs.difference_hours = parseInt(difference/(1000*60*60));
      outputs.difference_days = parseInt(difference/(1000*60*60*24));

      var weekCounter = 0;
      var temporaryDateWeek = new GlideDateTime(startingPoint);
      while(temporaryDateWeek.after(endingPoint))
      {
        temporaryDateWeek.addDaysUTC(-7);
        if (temporaryDateWeek.after(endingPoint))
          weekCounter++;
      }
      outputs.difference_weeks = weekCounter;

      var monthCounter = 0;
      var temporaryDateMonth = new GlideDateTime(startingPoint);
      while (temporaryDateMonth.after(endingPoint))
      {
        temporaryDateMonth.addMonthsUTC(-1);
        if (temporaryDateMonth.after(endingPoint))
          monthCounter++;
      }
      outputs.difference_months = monthCounter;

      var yearCounter = 0;
      var temporaryDateYear = new GlideDateTime(startingPoint);
      while (temporaryDateYear.after(endingPoint))
      {
        temporaryDateYear.addYearsUTC(-1);
        if (temporaryDateYear.after(endingPoint))
          yearCounter++;
      }

      outputs.difference_years = yearCounter;
    }
  }
  catch (err)
  {
    gs.addErrorMessage('Error occurred in date comparison: ' + err.message);
  }
})(inputs, outputs);

And here is the output step: