SharePoint Pnp PowerShell date query

Question

I am working with SharePoint Online and want to build a query with PnP PowerShell that checks if any dates in the date field Aviseringsdatum is equal to todays date. But my code still returns all items (currently 2 items in the list. One with the date today and one with the date yesterday). Any ideas?

The Code

 $Today = (Get-date).ToString( "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffffffZ" )
    $ListItems = Get-PnPListItem -List "Avtal" -Query "
        <Query>
           <Where>
              <eq>
                 <FieldRef Name='Aviseringsdatum' />
                 <Value IncludeTimeValue='TRUE' Type='DateTime'>$Today</Value>
              </eq>
           </Where>
        </Query>
        <ViewFields>
           <FieldRef Name='Title' />
           <FieldRef Name='Aviseringsdatum' />
           <FieldRef Name='Avtalsansvarig' />
        </ViewFields>
        <QueryOptions />
        ";

Answer 1

You are missing the <View> attribute in CAML query.

PnP PowerShell internally uses CSOM.

To query list items in CSOM, you need <View> attribute.

So, modify your code as below:

$Today = (Get-date).ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffffffZ")

$camlQuery = $("<View>
        <Query>
           <Where>
              <Eq>
                 <FieldRef Name='Aviseringsdatum' />
                 <Value IncludeTimeValue='TRUE' Type='DateTime'>$Today</Value>
              </Eq>
           </Where>
        </Query>
        <ViewFields>
           <FieldRef Name='Title' />
           <FieldRef Name='Aviseringsdatum' />
           <FieldRef Name='Avtalsansvarig' />
        </ViewFields>
    </View>")

$ListItems = Get-PnPListItem -List "Avtal" -Query $camlQuery

You can also, replace the line to use the out of the box <Today/> element as below:

<Value IncludeTimeValue='TRUE' Type='DateTime'><Today /></Value>

so, your full code would be like :

$camlQuery = $("<View>
            <Query>
               <Where>
                  <Eq>
                     <FieldRef Name='Aviseringsdatum' />
                     <Value IncludeTimeValue='TRUE' Type='DateTime'><Today /></Value>
                  </Eq>
               </Where>
            </Query>
            <ViewFields>
               <FieldRef Name='Title' />
               <FieldRef Name='Aviseringsdatum' />
               <FieldRef Name='Avtalsansvarig' />
            </ViewFields>
        </View>")

$ListItems = Get-PnPListItem -List "Avtal" -Query $camlQuery