Power Automate Functions - Add Days, Add utcNow, Range Function in Power Automate

Add Days in Power Automate

In this guide, we will discuss how to add in days in recent date or present date. For example, today's date is 12-13-2021 after the flow is run output will be 12-20-2021

For this purpose, we will add a compose action and add the call ‘utcNow ()’ function in it. Then add another compose action and add a custom function to it. To do so follow this document.

Create a new flow and add a compose action in after adding compose action call an utcNow () function in it. Check here Power Automate Functions - Get TodayDate, DayWeek, DayNumber and DayName from the data Value.

Output for it:

Add another Compose Action to add Days in it:

Code:

AddDays (outputs ('Get_UTC_Time_and_Date_Format_utcNow'), 7, 'MM-dd-yyyy')

Output:

In input date is 13 but in output data is 20:

Add utcNow Function:

UtcNow is a built-in function in power automation. UTC now function is used to get the current Date and Time

To do so go to power automate and create a new function. Add a compose action inflow and then navigate to expression editor call ‘utcNow’ function.

 Finally, run the function. The output will be.

Range Function in Power Automate:

Go to power automate and create a flow having instant cloud flow and run flow manually functions.

Range (5, 3) actually means that starting number is 5, and 3 means how many total numbers are

We tell in range function about starting point and how many integers should be

Output: