From the course: Learning Claris Connect
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Repeat steps
- [Instructor] One of the new additions to the Claris Connect platform is the ability to add a repeat step to your flow. Repeat steps allow you to iterate through a list of items, similarly to looping in different programming languages. Now, the concept of a list is important to understand. A list only exists after an action step generates a list. Typically this can either be sent over as part of a JSON block of data when an application uses a web hook to trigger a flow, or more commonly from an action that does something like searching or finding, which could then return multiple values or a list. And that's exactly what I've got here in this flow. You'll see in step number two, I've got the search events action. And what I'm doing here is I'm searching in my Google events for anything that has the search text, follow-up. And of course, if I find multiples of those, I won't just get one piece of step data back, but…
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