{"id":6235,"date":"2022-03-19T15:16:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T15:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=6235"},"modified":"2022-03-19T15:16:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T15:16:35","slug":"getting-the-first-item-from-a-sharepoint-online-list-in-a-flow-or-logic-app-without-a-for-each-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/azure\/getting-the-first-item-from-a-sharepoint-online-list-in-a-flow-or-logic-app-without-a-for-each-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the first item from a SharePoint Online list in a Flow or Logic App without a For each Loop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phew, what a long title!<\/p>\n

Here’s the dealeo. You have a SharePoint list. You search it for an item from a Logic App or Flow. You know there’ll be a single match so you even add the ‘Top Count’ to be 1.<\/p>\n

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Yet when you try and say assign that output to a variable it creates a For each loop.<\/p>\n

Notice I am selecting ‘value – Item’ to add to the Compose section here.<\/p>\n

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The moment I do that it makes this For each loop.<\/p>\n

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I don’t want that. I could work around it but why… I’d just like to get the first item from the SharePoint list.<\/p>\n

If you Google there’s answers to this. I am just lazy to keep Googling each time so I’ll make a blog post so I know what to do next time.<\/p>\n

The trick is to use the first<\/code> function<\/a>. All I have to do in the above case is change the Compose block to be something like this: first(body('Get_items')?['value'])?['<property I want>']<\/code><\/p>\n

To the first<\/code> function I pass the body<\/code> function with the name of the step as its parameter. In the above case the step is called “Get items” so we write it as “Get_items” – replace spaces with underscores basically. So that becomes first(body('Get_items')<\/code>. Notice I didn’t close the brackets, that’s intentional. What I want from body('Get_items')<\/code> is the value, so I should have actually put body('Get_items')?['value']<\/code> – or with the first<\/code> function first(body('Get_items')?['value'])<\/code>. This will return the first item in the collection of values returned from the “Get items” step.<\/p>\n

I know from this item I want the “Name” column for instance. So I would write that as first(body('Get_items')?['value'])?['Name']<\/code>. Notice the property is outside the first()<\/code> block.<\/p>\n

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And that’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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