What Are the Different Action Input Date/Time Types

ctsmith
Mega Sage

In the flow designer for action item input types, there is date/time, basic date/time, schedule date/time, and calendar date/time.   What is the difference?  I could not see all of these covered in the documentation.

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Richard Hine
Tera Guru
Tera Guru

ctsmith,

I believe they all extend date/time apart from Schedule Date/Time which extends string which ultimately maps onto the underlying database table date/time. The interesting thing is when you pick the different types, the type displayed in the data bus is different anyway :-

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Personally I always use Date/Time or string and then parse/validate the value inside a script step if required.

 

Hope this helps a little...

 

Richard