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Posted on by AnnicaTunster

I have a quite a heavy flow that i would like to optimize if possible. My question is weather its possible to speed up the apply for each function?

Basically what happens is that i have value x from a column in a document library. I then asks it to match value x with value Y in another documentlibrary and Value x and Value Y are both unique in their libraries.. Then i ask it to preform certain actions. It works great, but takes forever.

I come from the SQL world so for me this is action should be fast, but its not... I get a feeling it goes through and fail on all actions where there is no match, rather then retrieve a list of matches and then apply, if you get what i mean.

The flow currently looks like this:

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SCTdan 604 on at

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If I'm understanding what you're trying to do correctly, you should be able to speed this up using Filter Array.

If x and y are unique, this should just spit out your single record.

@AnnicaTunster wrote:

I come from the SQL world so for me this is action should be fast, but its not... I get a feeling it goes through and fail on all actions where there is no match, rather then retrieve a list of matches and then apply, if you get what i mean

That's exactly what it does. Definitely want to present Apply to Each with the smallest dataset possible.

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AnnicaTunster 23 on at

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Thank you! i thought that might be the case 🙂 I was looking into putting some kind of odata filter in the get file properties but couldnt figure out how to do it. I will do some research on how to use filter arrays, i might come back with a question if i cant sort it 🙂 Thanks!

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AnnicaTunster 23 on at

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Worked like a charm! Many thanks.

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