SharePoint Designer Workflow, condition: if value of date/time field is less then x days from today, do something

Hello,
A field in a list is called 'Date' (it is a date/time type of field)
Now I want a condition in a workflow that checks the 'date' field. If the date is less than X days from today it should (for example) send an email to a certain user.
Is this kind of condition possible in a SharePoint Designer Workflow?
Thanks in advance!

Hi,
As I understand, you want to create a workflow that can check data.
The workflow can be:
1. Add 0 months, 2 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes to Current Item:date1 (Output to Variable: date ) (2 days is the days you can set, and Current Item:data1 is the datefield you want to check from today)
2. Add 0 months, 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes to Today (Output to Variable: date1 )
3. Set time as 0 : 0 for Variable: date (Output to Variable: date2 )(get the Variable: date Date only )
4. Set time as 0 : 0 for Variable: date1 (Output to Variable: date3 )( get the Variable: date1 Date only)
5. If Variable: date2 equals Variable: date3
6. Email these users
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More reference:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1249366/start-sharepoint-workflow-x-days-before-expiry-date
Best regards,
Sara Fan

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