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Optimize "apply for each"

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Posted on by AnnicaTunster 23

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: psflow.png

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    AnnicaTunster 23 on at
    Re: Optimize "apply for each"

    Worked like a charm! Many thanks.

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    AnnicaTunster 23 on at
    Re: Optimize "apply for each"

    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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    SCTdan 604 on at
    Re: Optimize "apply for each"

    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.

     

     

    Thanks

    dan

     

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