Home / PowerApps / PowerApps ForAll Function Explained [ Many Examples ] PowerApps ForAll Function Explained [ Many Examples | PowerApps / By Johannes ral ON aL Ty CETL) Eee ‘The PowerApps ForAll function confused me in the beginning. Coming from a programming background I was expecting something like a classic for loop. But ForAllis a little different! ntipstzeigesteode, com/powerapps-forallfunction! 1135:1611112023, 07:32 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained | Many Examples } The most important aspects | needed to understand: = ForAll is not a classic for loop like in JavaScript, C# or Java = ForAll is a function with a return value like every function = ForAll function is not executed sequentially and therefore it is prohibited to keep any kind of state What | mean by this will be explained in the article. Furthermore you will get lots of example of common use cases for ForAll PowerApps function. ntpsuizeigestcode,com/powerapps-foral-function 2138ss1t12023, 07:82 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained { Many Exaroles Python For Loop PowerApps ForAll Function v PowerApps ForAll Function The ForAlll function lets you apply one or multiple functions on every record of a given table. The result of the function calls will be returned in a table. Note: Please be aware that the Fordll function comes with a few limitations: Certain functions can not be used within a ForAll function, the table ForAll is using can ot be modified and ForAll can not be delegated. (More details here) Syntax ForAll(Table, Formula) ntipstzeigesteode, com/powerapps-forallfunction! 3138sort112028, 07:32 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained | Many Examples] a table or a data source like a SharePoint list or a SQL table. = Formula (mandatory): The code you want to apply to each element of your table. Return value = Returns a table matching the result structure given by the used formula. Every entry reflects the result of the applied formula for the record of the table. The order is the same as for the input table. = Returns blank, if there is no record within the given table. ThisRecord Within your formula you can reference the current item in two ways: = Use ThisRecord’ for the entire record or use ‘ThisRecord.propertyName' like this for instance ThisRecord firstname’ = For properties you can skip the ThisRecord, so instead of ‘ThisRecord.firstname’ you can just use ‘firstname’ Let’s have a quick code example to demonstrate PowerApps ForAll ThisRecord for accessing the hitpsizetgeistoode.comipowerapps forall function’ 41351611112023, 07:32 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained | Many Examples } Clearcollect ( employees, { firstname: "Joe", lastname: "Smith" be { firstname: "Sally", lastname: " + Now we want to calculate the fullname of each employee. Take a look how at how firstname and how lastname are referenced within ForAll. PowerApps ForAlll ThisRecord Example ClearCollect( fullnames, Forall( employees, firstname & " " & ThisRecord. lastname 3 ForAll Limitations There are some limitation on what you can do within the formula of a ForAll function call ntipstzeigesteode, com/powerapps-forallfunction! 51351611112023, 07:32 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained | Many Examples } Prohibited modification of the table Itis not allowed to modify the table you are iterating over within the formula. You will get an error looking like this: This function can not operate on the same data source that is used in ForAll. xv ClearCollect(nos,1,2,3); Collect(nos,@) operate on the same data source that is used in ForAll. This function can not operate on the same data source that is used in ForAll Just think about what the example result could be: An endless loop or a collection of 1,0,2,0,3,07 Prohibited fun Within your formula in the ForAll function you can not uses the following functions: ntipstzeigesteode, com/powerapps-forallfunction! 61351611112023, 07:32 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained | Many Examples } = Set = UpdateContext When you try to use one of these function, you'll see the following error: ‘This function cannot be invoked within ForAll 1 Te Clearcollect(collection, iter...) | collection: A new or existing collection to augme v ClearCollect(nos,1,2,3); ForAll( _This function cannot be invoked within ForAlll. nos,|Clea rCollect(nbwCol, 0) This function cannot be invoked within ForAll So basically everything that could be used as state within the execution of the ForAll function is prohibited At some point this limitation will drive every PowerApps developer nuts. Why is it not allowed to have variables within a ForAll function? The order in which items of the table are processed might not be the same as within your table. So your first record might be processed as last record, because of parallel processing of items. Having state within in the non-deterministic order brings a lot of risk. That's why it is not allowed to have state. Note: The Collect function is allowed, but when you use it, do not rely on the order of your table! ForAll can not be delegated Since ForAll can not be delegated, be carefull with larger data sources like big SharePoint lists or ntipstzeigesteode, com/powerapps-forallfunction! 7138ssri12023, 07 32 Powerpps For Functon Explained ( Many Examples} PowerApps ForAll Examples Simple ForAll Example To understand how ForAlll works, let's start with a simple example. 1. Create a collection called ‘numbers’ with content [1,2,3] 2. Use ForAll to multiply every item in numbers by 2 3. Assign the result of ForAll to numbers ClearCollect (numbers, 1,2,3); Clearcollect( numbers , Forall( numbers, Value*2 3 Within our example the content of ‘numbers’ changes as shown in the tables. Note: ‘numbers’ is only changed, because we do a ‘ClearCollect(numbers....)’. Within the ForAll function numbers is not modified and can not be modified. ntipstzeigesteode, com/powerapps-forallfunction!sort112028, 07:32 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained | Many Examples] Value 2 3 Initial content of numbers collection 6 Content of numbers collection after ForAll ForAll multiple actions You can easily do multiple actions within a ForAll function. Just use the semicolon to seperate the function calls. Be aware, if you care about the return value of ForAll. The order of your function call do matter. The last function call we be the winner for the return value. Clearcollect( employees, { firstname: "Joe", lastname: "Smith" be { firstname: "Sally", lastname: "Miller" } 3 ClearCollect( fullnames, hitpsizetgeistoode.comipowerapps forall function’ 9135sort112028, 07:32 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained | Many Examples] firstname & " “ & ThisRecord. lastname; 3 ForAll Patch SharePoint List To create or update multiple SharePoint list items at once, you can use ForAlll and Patch. For example, we have a SharePoint List called ‘employees’ looking like this: ID name department 1 John Sales 2° Sally IT SharePoint List employees Now we want to add multiple new entries. Here is a collection of the new entries: // new employees we want to add to employees ClearCollect( newEmployees, { name: "Mike", name: "Susan", department: "CEO" 3 Now we can use ForAll to add every new employee to our SharePoint List via Patch. ForAll( newEmployees , Patch( hitpsizetgeistoode.comipowerapps forall function’ 101351611112023, 07:32 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained | Many Examples } ) ForAll with If condition Within yourt ForAll formula you can use If conditions. See the example below: ForAll( newEmployees, IF( department = "IT", Patch( employees, Defaults (employees), ThisRecord ForAll And Sequence If you need ForAll to iterate based on a count, use the Sequence function. The following example demonstrates how to create a collection with dates for the next 10 days from now. Clearcollect( next1eDays, Forall( Sequence( 1@ ), Dateadd( Today(), Value, Days ) ) ) ntipstzeigesteode, com/powerapps-forallfunction! 11135ssi12023, 07 32 PoworApps FovAll Function Explained { Mary Examples There can be situation where it is not obvious, which property is used. For example, we are having two collections: = Employees: Name and Department = Supvisors: Name and Department Let's define them: ClearCollect( Employees, { name: "Joe Smith", department: "IT" hb { name: "Sally Miler” department: "Sales" } 3 Clearcollect( Supervisors, { name: "Mike Doe", department: "IT" hb { name: "Sarah Hingston", department: "Sales" } 3 ClearCollect( res, ForAll ( Supervisors, Filter( Employees, donantmant = Sunenvicars!@denartmant | hitpsizetgeistoode.comipowerapps forall function’ 12135sst2028, 0732 Powerpps For Functon Explained ( Many Examples} ) 3 Based on the collection we want to define a data structure that lists all departments with their supervisor and a table of all employee in the department. depart. employ__supenvsor 1 fa ite Doe Slay f=z=| Serah Hingston depart... name depart... name Tr Joe Smith Sales Sally Miler ‘You may have noticed that Supervisors and Employees both have department property. This can lead to problems because it is not obvious which department should be used. You can solve this by using Ambiguity operator. See the example below: ClearCollect( Departments, ForAll ( Supervisors, { supervisor: ThisRecord.name, department: ThisRecord.department, amnlavane> Filtant ntipstzeigesteode, com/powerapps-forallfunction! 13935sort112028, 07:32 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained | Many Examples] This line is the important one. See the brakets and the @ symbol defining which department is meant. department = Supervisors[@department ] In case would be using the below, the filter would return in every iteration of ForAlll all departments, because the Employee department is compared with the Employee department. department = department You can solve the situation by using ‘As’ as well: ClearCollect ( Departments, ForAll ( Supervisors As s, { supervisor: s.name, department: s.department, employees: Filter( Employees, department = s.department ForAll within ForAll - Nested ForAll You can use nested ForAll function calls. hitpsizetgeistoode.comipowerapps forall function’ 14i381611112023, 07:32 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained | Many Examples } refers to the records within the current function. The solution is to use the As operator. In the example below we use ‘aRecord’ as an alias for ThisRecord of the ForAll call on ‘a’. ClearCollect (a, 2,3); ClearCollect(b,1@, 100); ClearCollect ( result, Forall( a As aRecord, ForAll( b, ThisRecord.Value * aRecord.Value 3 You might wonder, what is the outcome of this ForAll inside ForAll. What does result contain? Can you guess it? ntipstzeigesteode, com/powerapps-forallfunction! 15135sort112028, 07:32 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained | Many Examples] Value 20 200 First table entry Val 30 300 Second table entry ForAll with LookUp You can use LookUp calls within in ForAll, Please use As in case you want to reference ThisRecord of the parent ForAll call like shown below. Otherwise ThisRecord refers to the record of the LookUp ClearCollect( forAllResult, ForAl1( MyGallery.Allitems As galleryItems, { Firstname: galleryItems. firstname, Supervisor: LookUp( Employees, employeeId = galleryItems.supervisorid 3 ForAll with Gallery items To use ForAll to take action the gallery items, you can simply reference the items by callinf hitpsizetgeistoode.comipowerapps forall function’ 16135sort112028, 07:32 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained | Many Examples] ClearCollect( forallResult, Forall( NewEmployeesGallery.AllItems, Patch( employees, Defaults (employees), { Firstname: ThisRecord. first, Lastname: ThisRecord. last 3 Leave a Comment Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * hitpsizetgeistoode.comipowerapps forall function’ 171386111/2028, 07:32 PowerApps ForAll Function Explained | Many Examples } Very good Name* Email* Website © Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time | comment. 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