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[DarkEric]

Can we define a string array to be used in a for-each or do loop process in flow.

Let say defining a list of keywords to look up in messages content (azure, migration, 365, google, ...).

Once the keyword is found, msg should be stored in the keyword folder.

This will avoid a bunch of branches and allow to add keyword without modifyin the flow.

Apologies if this question was already asked but did not find it in the forum and i'm new using Flow

Rgds

Eric

[Pawel]

Hi @DarkEric,

what is exactly your scenario?

In general it's possible to check if one of the strings in an array filfills a condition. For that you would need to use "Add a condition" option and then select "Edit in advanced mode". In advanced mode you need to add a condition based on Workflow Definition Language

E.g. below is the condition to check if the subject of a new email contains any of the strings from array ['azure', 'o365', 'microsoft'] 

@or(contains(triggerBody()?['Subject'], 'azure'),or(contains(triggerBody()?['Subject'], 'o365'), contains(triggerBody()?['Subject'], 'microsoft')))

See screenshot below:

 

Let me know if that helps.

[DarkEric]

Pawel,

Thx for your reply.

It covered part of it, yes.

ideally wishing to avoid a lot of "and" in the test condition that why i thought to a "for each" or a "do loop" with a string array or equivalent as {'string1', 'string2'} and a "is in" condition.

as an example, let say that you have to follow some projects (some could vary from 1 to x) and you want to automatically store msg in the project folder pointed by the string you detect in the body.

So once you have defined the project list array, the flow scan new msg to look if any of string is detected; if one is detected the string is used to define the storage folder.

hope my explanations are clear enough.

Rgds

Eric

[Pawel]

@DarkEric currently we don't have a condition similar to "is in array" that you mentioned.

As a workaround you can use solution that I suggested in my previous post using Workflow Definition Language (but I agree, the condition might become lenghty and the user experience of adding such condition should be improved).

Could you add your idea to our Flow ideas page? https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

Thanks!