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

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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'?
 
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Pabblymember11

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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

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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
 
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Pabblymember11

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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

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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?
 
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Pabblymember11

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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.
 
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