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Filtering query on Get Items by Created date

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Hi!
I have a flow, which has a step "Get items" and it gets items from a Sharepoint list. I would like it to:
- order them from oldest to newest, so in "Order By" I have "Created asc"
- get only items older then 90 days
- for testing purposes I added "Top Count"=1, cause my flow is supposed to delete those records, so I wanted to start with only 1 record
 
In "Filter query" I already tried the following, but I am always getting the same error (just the formatting mentioned in the error changes to the format that I am trying at the moment):
 
"Action 'Get_items' failed: The expression "Created le 2025-10-19T12:00:00Z" is not valid. Creating query failed."
 
So I tried the following:
 
Created le formatDateTime(addDays(utcNow(),-90),'yyyy-MM-ddT00:00:00Z')
 
Created le formatDateTime(addDays(utcNow(),-90),'yyyy-MM-ddT00:00:00')
 
Created le formatDateTime(addDays(utcNow(),-90),'yyyy-MM-dd')
 
Created le formatDateTime(addDays(utcNow(),-90),'g')
 
I tried also a different way - I added steps: Current time, Convert time zone, Subtract from time - which gave me "Calculated time" equal to "2025-10-19T00:00:00.0000000". 
The I tried both using it in filtering without further formatting it, as well as with formatting to several date formats. Always ended up with the mentioned error.
 
Please help me as I am completely clueless.
Thank you!
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    trice602 Profile Picture
    15,903 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Hi there!
     
    You are really close and I hope this helps.  A recommendation is to always include a screenshot of the action you are using so we can actually see how you are entering your filter query.  Without the image, we'll guess a little.
     
    I think you may be typing in the actual expression into the filter query vs using an expression itself.  See how mine is developed in the filter query below.
     
    Ok, 2 things regardless:
     
    1)  your expression needs to be inside single parenthesis (shown below).
    2)  you are really close on the formatDateTime except the time is actually entered as THH:mm:ssZ  - note the capitalization on specific elements, it has to be exact.
     
     
    As the old saying goes....works in testing.
     
     

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  • Fiilli Profile Picture
    57 on at
    Thank you so much!
    It was all about putting the expression between ' '.
    I would have never thought of it. Thank you!!
  • trice602 Profile Picture
    15,903 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Very nice!  Have a great weekend and hope to catch up with you on the next thread too! 💯💯💯💯💯
  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    8,551 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    I don't think it is necessary to use formatDateTime.  Behind the scenes Power Automate is already using the ISO8601 format.

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