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I have 45+ variables I use in my flow.

Each variable is initialized and then set. Is there a way to reduce these into a single Initialize Variable action, and then 45 Set variable actions? or a better method using Parse JSON?

any help is appreciated!

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Rhiassuring 8,692 Moderator on at

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Have you seen this article in your searches?

https://pankajsurti.com/2020/10/20/how-to-eliminate-defining-large-set-of-variables-in-power-automate/

This thread talks about the same solution as well:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/Multiple-variable-initialization-in-single-block/td-p/627741

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grantjenkins 11,063 Moderator on at

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If you can let us know what your flow is doing, then we might be able to restructure it so it's more streamlined. I've built some fairly complex flows before, but only ever have a few variables. It really depends on the purpose of the flow and what you're trying to achieve.

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Nived_Nambiar 18,136 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @BordFronco

Storing variables in json format would help insteading of initializing all variables like this

for example: you need to initialize three variables a, b,c with values "NN","NN2","NN3"

Then you can create a json structure like below

{"a":"NN1", "b":"NN2", "c":"NN3" }

So whenever you need the value of any variable, you can use key to get the variable value.

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I hope this would help you
Mark it as solution if it resolves your query 🙂

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