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Conditional Approval Outcome from Within "Apply to Each"?

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I have a "Start and Wait for Approval" step, which then leads into a Conditional of "Outcome = Approved (Yes/No)"

My problem now is that I've added some information within the 'detail' portion of the Approval step which obtains data from a "Get List Item" earlier in the flow. This has therefore embedded the Approval within an "Apply to Each" and stopped the condition from being able to obtain the Outcome directly.

Does anyone know a way round this beyond just removing the 'detail' from the Approval step?

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Dear APM1994,

I have previously been successful in preventing 'Apply to each' loops with the first() expression. The first() expression picks up the first entry of an array.
The syntax is a bit weird though (at least I struggled with it), but it works well enough.

Hope the suggestion helps,
Happy flowing,
Koen

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https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Avoiding-apply-to-each-loops-with-first-function/td-p/1855847

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APM1994 43 on at

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I need to get about 8 or so values from the list. Unless I've misunderstood, your solution would mean I'd need to do an expression for each column? Which would be quite inefficient

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Dear APM1994,
I assume your 8 values are within the first 'row' of the array you pull from the 'Get List Item'.
Then you should be able to just define something like below:

first(outputs('Get_List_Item')?['body/value'])['colum1']
first(outputs('Get_List_Item')?['body/value'])['colum2']
first(outputs('Get_List_Item')?['body/value'])['colum...']

Happy flowing, hope it helps,
Koen

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They're in the last row. In my "Get items" query, I have done "ID desc" (Order by) and "1" (Top Count) in order to extract the latest item added to the list

So I've already extracted the row I need in that method. So I guess I don't need the "first" aspect of your above?

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Dear APM1994,
That depends ... the output you get from your action will still in array format, isn't it?
So as soon as you refer to this data you will automatically get an 'Apply to each', unless you use first() or some other way ...

Happy flowing,
Koen

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