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Optimize flow that using many composes and creates item. Takes over 20 hours.

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Posted on by wonka1234 920 Super User 2024 Season 1

Hi,

 

My flow takes over 20 hours to run.

 

Anyone know how i can optimize this?

 

my flow -

wonka1234_0-1696445360610.png

 

filtering a column to eliminate N/As.

wonka1234_1-1696445367492.png

 

my compose statements are mainly like this -

 

Compose Statement - 

items('Apply_to_each')?[concat('Start ', '/', ' Date')]
 
2nd compose -
if(
    empty(outputs('Compose')), 
    null, 
    addDays('1899-12-30', int(outputs('Compose')), 'yyyy-MM-dd')
)

 

 

This is repeated several times for 6 or 7 date columns. Ie compose 3 and 4 will be for another date column, and so on.

wonka1234_3-1696445391169.png

 

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  • lbendlin Profile Picture
    lbendlin 8,649 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Instead of listing the rows in the Excel table you could run a SQL query against that table which already produces the required output format for the sharepoint items

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