How to run two loops simultaneously?

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Anyone know how to run two loops simultaneously?

Thx in advance

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Kresimir_RPA 286 on at

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You mean you want to iterate through two lists?

Suppose You have two lists:

List 1 = List of names
List 2 = List of emails that might contain these names
#LIST 1#
Sarah
Tom
Rebecca
#LIST 2#
Email 1
Email 2
Email 3

You want to iterate through each name in List 1 and check against List 2 to see if any emails contain the names.
Something like this:

Regards,
Kresimir

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Pavel_NaNoi 1,074 on at

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If this is for Power Automate flows, use concurrency control in the settings of the loop you want to run simultaneously, if not and you mean run two loops in Power Automate Desktop (PAD) at the same time, you can't, there's no parallelism in PAD. You have to get clever with things like lists that can avoid loops entirely.

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automat0n 12 on at

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regarding PADesktop, if there is no parallelism, is there asynchronous calls?

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Pavel_NaNoi 1,074 on at

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I don't usually call API's from PAD so I'm not 100% sure on that, but I think it does not no, since it always waits for an action to complete before moving onto the next step. Flows once again though, has that feature.

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automat0n 12 on at

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Thanks for the reply. I need to automate an app that doesn't offer an API.
I wonder if the UI automation engine behind Power Automate Desktop might be available for use with a scripting language?

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Pavel_NaNoi 1,074 on at

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You can use scripting languages in PAD such as Python, VBScript, Java, PowerShell and cmd via their respective actions, and I think you can indeed do it the other way around where you can use a script to run a specific PAD automation if that is what you're asking.

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