# How do I seed the lastExportDateTime when using a Delta export type?

**URL:** https://connective.celigo.com/t/how-do-i-seed-the-lastexportdatetime-when-using-a-delta-export-type/5219
**Category:** Integrator.io
**Created:** [August 6, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://connective.celigo.com/t/how-do-i-seed-the-lastexportdatetime-when-using-a-delta-export-type/5219 "2025-08-06T21:52:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![tonycurcio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/connective.celigo.com/tonycurcio/32/8202_2.png) [@tonycurcio](https://connective.celigo.com/u/tonycurcio)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2025, 11:25pm UTC](https://connective.celigo.com/t/how-do-i-seed-the-lastexportdatetime-when-using-a-delta-export-type/5219/2 "2025-08-06T23:25:12Z")

</div>

@Daniel_Wilson … there was a discussion of a few different options on that here. Hope this helps.

> [@How to reset flow run time to restart a Delta export type](https://connective.celigo.com/t/how-to-reset-flow-run-time-to-restart-a-delta-export-type/433/5):
>
> Alternative to @scotthenderson's and @mattgraney's suggestion, which would work, you could potentially make this a bit more automated. This does assume that the global updates you are making are to fields that shouldn't every trigger the flow to send an update even if not mass updated. I had a similar use case at my last company where some fields would get updated daily, but those fields had no reason to trigger updates to external sources. First option could be to add search criteria to your …

---

_[View the full topic](https://connective.celigo.com/t/how-do-i-seed-the-lastexportdatetime-when-using-a-delta-export-type/5219)._