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Best way to build a string (Looping through results)?

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Posted on by bbrazeau

Current process is:

Get dataset which contains a few hundred entites.

Loop over each record in dataset
 Set VariableTemp = OutputVariable
 Set OutputVariable = concatentate(VariableTemp, "<br />", PropertyX)

Write OutputVariable to file

Problem is, the above method takes a long time. I have a 600 record dataset and processing takes 6 minutes to run the loop step. Another process does the same 2 step loop runs through 18,000 records and takes over 2 hours.

If there is a better way to build a string please let me know. The current method works, but I'd prefer to do something much less resource intensive.

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Re: Best way to build a string (Looping through results)?

Hi @bbrazeau ,

The process you describe seems to be a relatively straightforward method and there are no extra steps.

You could share screenshots of Flow configuration, including some details, and maybe we can try to optimize this process.

Best Regards,

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Re: Best way to build a string (Looping through results)?

Here are some screen shots - I can provide more if you like. This particual one isn't quite the same as another I was looking at, but it is behaving much worse so here goes.

A scope contains the loop that is taking quite a long time.
Duration of a run
There are 18k rows, each append is a blank row and a single string of about 50-75 chars

The Flow step - I included the hover overs so you can see the actual text.

Details of loop

Let me know if there is anything else I can provide. I can spin up a copy (that doesn't send files) if you have ideas to test.

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Re: Best way to build a string (Looping through results)?

Hi @v-bacao-msft , not sure if you saw the reply. Still having poor performance when looping over a result set and building output.

Any other info I can get?

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