How to break the Iterator? How many steps are iterated/looped after the 'Iterator' action?

[Tanya Saxena]

I have created one 'Iterator' action in Pabbly Connect, and now I've 5 different steps/actions just after this 'Iterator' action/step in my workflow. So will it loop/iterate through just 1 action just after the 'Iterator' action or all 5 actions just after the 'Iterator' action will be iterated?

How can I come out of the loop/iteration? If I just wanna iterate through 2 actions and then come out of the loop/iteration and normally proceed with the rest 3 actions. Is there an action like 'Break'?

 

[Pabblymember11]

Hey @Tanya Saxena

I have created one 'Iterator' action in Pabbly Connect, and now I've 5 different steps/actions just after this 'Iterator' action/step in my workflow. So will it loop/iterate through just 1 action just after the 'Iterator' action or all 5 actions just after the 'Iterator' action will be iterated?

For a better understanding of the Iterator action step, you can refer to the following video tutorial.

How can I come out of the loop/iteration? If I just wanna iterate through 2 actions and then come out of the loop/iteration and normally proceed with the rest 3 actions. Is there an action like 'Break'?

Further, the iteration of the execution cannot be broken but you may control it once by adding a filter action step afterward.

 

[aoris]

Hello @Supreme
Could expand a bit on the iterations? I have watched the video again and I am not quite sure of the number of Action Steps that are executed after the Iterator. Does it run in iteration mode for any step that uses iterated data?

Thanks,
Mickael

 

[Pabblymember11]

Hey @aoris

If you have n number of entries in the JSON array coming from the application, it will run n times after the Iterator action step and the action step used afterward.

So, if you are having 2 more action steps after the Iterator action step in your workflow and you have 5 entries coming from Google Sheets, it will take 5*2 tasks with the addition of the action step used before.

 

[aoris]

Oh, interesting, thank you. So to summarize:

• Iterator controls the data used for the iterations, including the number of iterations based on the data (assuming 5 entries)
• Step 1 after the iterator step will run 5 times.
• Step 2 after the iterator step will run 5 times.
• Step 3 after the iterator step will run once.

Correct?

 

[Pabblymember11]

More precisely -

• Iterator controls the data used for the iterations, including the number of iterations based on the data (assuming 5 entries)
• Step 1 after the iterator step will run 5 tasks.
• Step 2 after the iterator step will run 5 tasks.
• Step 3 after the iterator step will run once.

 

[aoris]

Thank you @Supreme !!
It might be worth pinning that information to the forum. It's super useful to use the Iterator properly.

Have a good one,
Aoris