3 Mistakes YOU 🫵 are Making with the Apply to Each Action in your Microsoft Power Automate Flow

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Are you making these 3 mistakes with the Apply to Each action in your Power Automate flow?

1️⃣ Looping through a Single Item
2️⃣ Creating Unnecessary Nested Loops
3️⃣ Looping through an Unfiltered Array

In this video tutorial I’ll go over how to avoid these common mistakes when using the Apply to Each action in a Power Automate flow. At the end of the video I’ll share a few helpful insights when it comes to using the Apply to Each action in your flow.

IN THIS VIDEO:

✅ How to avoid the Apply to Each action with a single item array
✅ How to use the item() function to access dynamic content in an array
✅ How to prevent unnecessary nested Apply to Each action loops
✅ How to use the Select action
✅ How to convert an array to a string with the Select action
✅ How to use the Filter Query field
✅ How to count the number of items in an array
✅ How to use a condition control
✅ How to use the concurrency control
✅ How to set a top count
✅ How to use Compose actions for troubleshooting

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SKIP AHEAD:

00:00 | Build the Flow
00:56 | Looping through a Single Item
05:54 | Creating Unnecessary Nested Loops
08:27 | Looping through an Unfiltered Array
09:31 | Add a Condition Check
10:23 | Turn on the Concurrency Control
10:51 | Set a Top Count
12:08 | Use Compose Actions

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[acreativeopinion]

Which mistake are you guilty of making? Let me know down below! 👇👇👇

[beyourbestselfeveryday]

This week I spent too many hours creating flow with unnecessary loops. This was helpful.

[jjactual]

Very useful video, thanks for sharing!

Since you asked...
Can you batch create new/update items to SharePoint list or MS Excel using a single action and not going through 'apply to each'?

[florianboissiere]

I follow a lot of power platform channels. Yours is just next level. I can’t wait to see the day Microsoft in their training will refer their student to your channel like they do currently for Raza or others

[zzota]

This is brilliant, thank you. Why can't PA do this as standard?

[philippvanderheide]

most underrated channel here - awesome content - thank you very much!

[monkeybasher]

Extremely helpful video. Thank you for creating this.

[janvanhaver]

Great video. Most of it I was already aware of, but still I found some useful tricks, thx!

What am I still struggling with? Trigger conditions on PA flows: when to use triggerOutputs() and when triggerBody(). Would love to hear your comments on that.

[RhondaatWork-zg]

Great video with a lot of tips, had to watch a few times to take good notes! I'd love to see how to resolve nested For each scenarios. I need one email to contain dynamic content from 2 get rows actions. I was unsuccessful in using an Expand query :(.

[melvinnadar]

Hello, I have two excels where i have filtered values based in one excel from the input from the other, now i want this filtered array to copied in an already created excel, but for this again i am going through a loop of apply to each filtered item and add a row in a table. can i directly copy the entire filtered item instead of going through each line