What are Scopes?
Scopes are a special kind of action in Power Automate that, unlike other actions, do not perform any actual work. What makes them so special is that they can contain other actions. Almost like a flow within a flow.
A Scope is an action that “groups” other actions inside it. You can consider it as a box that encompasses all actions under it and can be collapsed better to display the “sections” of your Flow.
How to use a scope?
A Scope is quite simple to work with. It’s used as any other action, so you can search for it when adding a new one.
The Scope will look like this.
What should we combine in a scope?
Triggers
Get the file (Scope)
Iterate the items and get a JSON file (Scope)
Check if it has at least 2 rows.
Parse each element into a JSON string (Scope)
Return the result
Triggers Get the file (Scope)
Iterate the items and get a JSON file (Scope)
Check if it has at least 2 rows.
Parse each element into a JSON string (Scope)
Return the result
Conclusion:
Scopes are a wonderful tool to organize your Flows in logical units. It’s hard to convert complex Flows that you have to use blocks, but consider these when building new Flows. It will save you a lot of time debugging as well as keep your “code” organized.
Scopes are a wonderful tool to organize your Flows in logical units. It’s hard to convert complex Flows that you have to use blocks, but consider these when building new Flows. It will save you a lot of time debugging as well as keep your “code” organized.
