I'm currently working on a project for Power Automate to read this hourly email that is sent to my Inbox, detailing key indicators for the database servers that I am maintaining.
I was tasked to make a flow where Power Automate triggers an alert when key indicators breach the minimum threshold so that the team can rectify issues with the servers.
However, I don't really know how to go about building the flow, especially with the condition part of the flow.
Here's a small snippet of the email:
<td style="width: 300px; text-align: center;"><strong>System Start Date Time:</strong></td>
<td style="width: 300px; text-align: center;">04 July 2022 02:53 PM</td>
In this example, I need the condition flow to focus on the date-time provided. As there are multiple of such date-times throughout the email, using the contains() condition is ruled out. Would appreciate any input at all and will be willing to provide a more detailed explanation if need be. Thanks in advance.
You could use an indexOf function to check in a trigger condition if a certain substring can be found in the body/body property. With an equals and not you can output a boolean. This way the flow will only trigger if it has found the text 'System Start Date Time'.
#not(equals(indexOf(triggerOutputs()?['body/body'], 'System Start Date Time:'), -1))
After that you can retrieve the date time value. Since the HTML will always be the same (I assume) you can use three split functions. Split on the 'System Start Date Time' text, return the second part (by using index 1). From the second part you can split on the begin and end td tags.
split(split(split(triggerOutputs()?['body/body'], 'System Start Date Time:')[1], '<td style="width:300px; text-align:center">')[1], '</td>')[0]
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I am wondering about power automate flow and I issues I had.
I am trying to set up initialize variables for checking time (european standard time) in my rules.
Expression looks like this -
startOfHour(convertFromUtc(triggerOutputs()?['body/receivedDateTime'],'Central European Standard Time','t'), 't')
Under variables I have condition which (True/Not) like this -
YES - time is greater than 22:30 PM
NO - time is less than 8:00 AM
If condition is true, my e-mail is forwarded to another outlook mailbox.
If not, nothing happened.
But this flow doesn't work :D
Can you help me resolve it ?
Thanks a lot !
First part prtscrn
Second part prtscrn
Given the information provided, I suggest the following:
Get the current time.
Convert it to the desired time zone. You can use the built in function to avoid calculation errors.
Convert only hour and minute to Integer. For example, 14:33 would be 1433.
Compare integers. This is: if time is greater than 2230 and less than 830, then forward email.
The flow might look like this:
I want to fetch record from the sys_user table which is updated at or after certain time stamp.
for that I have created rest request as
https:/service-now.com/api/now/v1//table/sys_user?sysparm_query=sys_updated_on>=javascript:gs.dateGenerate('2017-10-30','01:25:00')
I had converted current time which is in IST format into GMT and pass it to dateGenerate() function.
Problem statement -
I don't want to convert the IST to GMT, is there any way by which i can identify ServiceNow instance time zone at runtime and convert given time into that time stamp and get the users.
If i can pass this date and time in UTC format.
Ahoy!
This is a great question, and something that's quite difficult in ServiceNow (dealing with time-zones).
As such, I've written a tool to manage this for you. It's totally free!
The tool is called TimeZoneUtil, and can be found here:
https://snprotips.com/blog/2017/9/12/handling-timezones-in-servicenow-timezoneutil
You simply need to initialize a GlideDateTime object, set its' time-zone to IST, use setDisplayValue() to set its' time based on IST current time, then use .getValue() to get that same time in system time.
This is because getDisplayValue()/setDisplayValue() work based on time-zone, whereas setValue()/getValue() always return the corresponding system time.
EDIT: In order to make this a little more clear, I'll provide some example usage below.
var tz = new TimeZoneUtils(); //initialize with current time
gs.print(tz.getOffsetHours()); //prints out "-7" in my instance, as the system time is in Pacific.
tz.setTimeZone('Asia/Kolkata'); //sets the time-zone to IST/UTC+5.5
gs.print(tz.getOffsetHours()); //prints "5.5".
gs.print(tz.getGDT().getDisplayValue()); //Prints the current time in IST (2017-11-01 20:52:31 at the moment).
gs.print(tz.getGDT().getValue()); //Prints the current time in system time (2017-11-01 15:23:12 at present).
gs.print(new TimeZoneUtils().setTimeZone('Asia/Kolkata').getDisplayValue()); //Single line, also prints current time in IST: 2017-11-01 20:52:31
The first 6 lines there, demonstrate basic usage and explain how it works.
The eighth line however, demonstrates usage on a single line, which you can use inside a query string. For example:
sysparm_query=sys_updated_on>=javascript:new TimeZoneUtils().setTimeZone('Asia/Kolkata').getDisplayValue()
Hope this helps!
Tim Woodruff
Author, Learning ServiceNow & Building Powerful Workflows
Owner/Founder, SN Pro Tips
I would like to track the performance with Robot Framework & Selenium2Library. When I click on an element a stopwatch must be counting en stops when the page is ready. Is it possible? I'm known with the DateTime library and tried something but it doesn't work.
Here is a simple example which measures the time that the page took to load some distinct element:
${start} = Get Current Date
Open Browser https://ixquick.com/
Wait Until Page Contains Element //input[#id='query']
${stop} = Get Current Date
${diff} = Subtract Date From Date ${stop} ${start}
Log ${diff}
You need Selenium2Library and DateTime library to run this. Adjust it to your needs, i.e. you have to find a definition of ready. This might be some HTML element to be present or some other criteria.
My program asks the user for any events that he will be having later on (eg. meeting/special lunch event/submit report/pay bills/birthday) and will remind the user when the time comes.
Here is my code:
Dim remind
re=MsgBox("Do you want me to remind you anything later on?", vbYesNo, "Reminder")
If re=6 then call main
Sub main
' Ask for the time that the user wanted to be reminded
remind=InputBox("At what time?" & vbNewLine &
"Please use this format {H:MM:SS AM/PM}" & vbNewLine &
"Note: H is in 12h format")
' Description eg. "Lunch with boss"
reminder=InputBox("Any discription you want to add in?")
Do Until check=remind
check=Time
If check=remind Then MsgBox reminder
Loop
End Sub
For example, I put in 12:30:00 PM and Lunch with boss. Even when the time comes nothing happens, no popup. And when I check my TaskManager it is still running.
I'm using wscript.exe to run this script. It's the do until check=remind part that doesn't work. If I put do until check="12:30:00 PM" then it will work.
PS: I know we can use the Microsoft Outlook for the reminder or even use our phones. But this is well suited for workers that are 24h infront of the computer and lazy to use their phones and update their outlook.
Convert to Date data type
The issue seems to be that the remind variable is a String data type, and the check variable is a Date data type. When you try to compare them, they'll always fail to be equal, even if the actual date inside both types is the same.
You can solve the problem by using the CDate function to convert remind to a Date before entering the loop.
remind = CDate(remind)
Validation
Because you're now using CDate to convert the user's input, if they make a typo and enter an invalid date, its going to bring up an error box and end the program. You may want to use IsDate to ensure it is a valid time before converting it, then gracefully ask the user to enter the time again if they made a typo.
CPU Usage
Your loop will sit there taking up 100% CPU usage of one core of the machine its running on. This can slow down your user's computer, among other side effects.
To fix this issue, you want to slow down the loop, such that its only checking a few times a second, rather than a few hundred times a second. Insert this statement inside the loop to have it sleep for 500 milliseconds before trying again.
WScript.Sleep 500
I'm trying to read the data off a contactless Visa Paywave card.
For the Paywave, I have to submit a SELECT using PPSE (2PAY.SYS.DDF01) instead of PSE (1PAY.SYS.DDF01).
The EMV book 1, section 11.3.4, table 43 only describes how to interpret the response for a successful SELECT command using PSE. Does anyone know or can refer me to a source that shows how to process the data returned from a successful SELECT command using PPSE?
Here's my request APDU:
00A404000e325041592e5359532e444446303100
Here's the response:
6F2F840E325041592E5359532E4444463031A51DBF0C1A61184F07A0000000031010500A564953412044454249548701019000
I understand tag 84, tag 85, tag BF0C from the response. According to the examples for reading PSE, I should be able to just send GET PROCESSION OPTIONS (to get the AIP and AFL) with PDOL = null after this successful response as follows: 80A80000830000.
But request 80A80000830000 returns error code 6985 - Command not allowed; conditions of use not satisfied.
I also tried reading all the files after successfully selecting the PPSE by traversing through every single SFI (0-30) and every single record (0-16) of each SFI. Yes, I also did the 3 bit shift and bitwise-OR the SFI with 0x4. But I got no data.
I'm stuck, any help that would point me into getting some info from my Paywave card would be appreciated!
Have you tried this tool from EMVLAB http://www.emvlab.org/emvtags/
Using that tool,
http://www.emvlab.org/tlvutils/?data=6F2F840E325041592E5359532E4444463031A51DBF0C1A61184F07A0000000031010500A564953412044454249548701019000
2PAY.SYS.DDF01 is for contactless (e.g. NFC ) cards, while 1PAY.SYS.DDF01 is for contact cards.
After successfully (SW1 SW2 = 90 00) reading a PSE, you should only search for the SFI (tag 88) which is a mandatory field in the FCI template returned.
With the SFI as your start index, your would have to read the records starting from the start index until you get a 6A83 (RECORD_NOT_FOUND). E.g. if your SFI is 1, you would do a readRecord with record_number=1. That would probably be successful. Then you increament record_number to 2 and do readRecord again. The increament to 3 .... Repeat it until you get 6A83 as your status.
The records read would be ADFs (at least 1). Then your would have to compare the read ADF Names with what your terminal support and also based on the ASI (Application Selection Indicator). At the end you would have a list of possible ADFs (Candidate list)
All the above steps (1-3) are documented in chapter 12.3.2 Book1 v4.3 of the EMV spec.
You would have to make a final selection (Chapter 12.4 Book1)
Read the spec book 1 chapter 12.3 - 12.4 for all the detailed steps.
You seem to have the flow mixed up a bit, you want to:
Send 1PAY or 2PAY, it doesn't actually matter for all of the cards I've tested. This will return a list of the AIDs available on the card. Alternately you can just select an AID straight away if you know it's there but good practice would be to check first.
Get the list of AIDs returned in response to 1PAY/2PAY, in PayWave's case this will probably be A0000000031010 if you sent 2PAY but you may get more if you send 1PAY.
Select one of the AIDs sent back (or one you already know is on there).
Then loop through the SFIs and records sending the Read Records command to get the data.
You don't have to send Get Processing Options before sending the Read Records command even though that's now a normal transaction flow goes.
I think the information you're looking for is available from this VISA website. But only if you're a registered and/or licensed partner of VISA.
EDIT: Looking at the resulting TLV struct under BF0C:
tag=0xBF0C, length=0x1A
tag=0x61, length=0x18
tag=0x4F, length=0x07, value=0xA0000000031010 // looks like an AID to me
tag=0x50, length=0x0A, value="VISA DEBIT"
tag=0x87, length=0x01, value=0x01
I would guess that you need to first select A0000000031010 before getting the processing options.
I was selecting application 2PAY.SYS.DDF01. when I should have been selecting AID = 0xA0000000031010. It looks like there's no records under application 2PAY.SYS.DDF01.
But there was 1 record under application 0xA0000000031010. After I got this application, I performed a READ RECORD, and the first record gave me the PAN and all the credit card info I wanted.
Thanks everyone for chiming in.