From the course: SharePoint: Migrating from Designer to Power Automate

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Loops

Loops

- [Instructor] Have you ever needed to iterate through one of your Sharepoint lists and do something what that information in your workflow? This is something that you can easily do in Power Automate, thanks to the apply to each action. When building a workflow, oftentimes, you need to iterate through a list of information and perform an action based off of that information. Take this scenario, for example. You want to receive a weekly reminder of what projects you're working on so that you know which projects to enter in time for. This is something that you can easily do with the looping capability and Power Automate. If you wanted to do something similar in Sharepoint Designer, on the other hand, it would require a lot of complex logic. You would have to use the call HTTP web service to get the items, count them in a dictionary, and perform many steps to do this. In Power Automate, on the other hand, it's really easy.…

Contents