Usage Of Less Function In Power Automate

Introduction

In Power Platform, at times we must compare values to identify whether the given number is less or not. In Power Automate, Less Function can be used quickly to find out whether the given integer/float is less or not by comparing with a number.

Step 1

Login to the required Power Apps environment using URL make.powerapps.com by providing username and password and click on Flows on the left-hand side as shown in the below figure.

Step 2

After Step 1, Click on New Flow and select instant cloud flow and provide the trigger as Manually trigger a flow and click on Create as shown in the below figure.

Step 3

After Step 2, name the flow as Less Function and take an initialize variable and name it as Initialize variable - Age Entry to enter into Park for Children - 5 and provide values

Name: Age
Type: Integer
Value: 5

as shown in the below figure.

Step 4

After Step 3, take compose action and name it as Compose - Check if the Age is less than 6 and provide less function which expects couple of arguments and Returns true if the first argument is less than the second with the following syntax

less(value: integer|float|string, compareTo: integer|float|string)

and provide inputs as

less(variables('Age'),6)

as shown in the below figure.

Step 5

After Step 4, take compose action and name it as Compose - Check if the Age is less than 3 and provide the following inputs

Inputs : less(variables('Age'),3)

 as shown in the below figure.

Step 6

After Step 5, save and test the flow and observe the results as shown in the below figure.

Note

1. Make sure to save and run the flow whenever you try expressions.
2. In this example provided only integer as argument, float and string values can also be provided.

Conclusion

In this way, we can use less function in power automate to achieve customer functionality to easily verify whether the given number is less or not.