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Posted on by RJF61 1,265
I have the following Flow where I am trying to update a column based on it's content.  The Flow begins but never seems to complete.  Am I missing something?
 
 
 
 
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    Mark Nanneman 993 Moderator on at
    You have nested "For Each" loops that appear unnecessary and which you'd want to avoid in any case.

    I would try moving your "Update an item" action so that it's in the top level "Apply to each" loop. 

    It appears that you're going through each item in the list, and then going through each item in the list again to do your updates.  It looks like you're trying to update each item in your list N times, where N is the number of items in your list that you retrieve with this flow. 

    If it's 100+ items, then you're updating each item 100+ times, and your flow is going to take a while to run.  

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