/tags/unique-records-in-power-automate/ Recent content in Unique Records in Power Automate on That API Guy Hugo en Sat, 04 Apr 2020 21:01:10 +0000 /posts/get-distinct-records-using-the-union-expression-in-power-automate/ Sat, 04 Apr 2020 21:01:10 +0000 /posts/get-distinct-records-using-the-union-expression-in-power-automate/ <p>If you want to find all the distinct records in your data-source like a SharePoint list, there is no &ldquo;Distinct records&rdquo; action or distinct expression that you can use in <a href="https://flow.microsoft.com">Power Automate</a> (earlier called Microsoft Flow) .</p> <p>There is a simple way to do it using the <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/workflow-definition-language-functions-reference#union">union expression</a> . This expression returns all the common items in two arrays. So, if we you use the union expression for an array on itself , it will return basically all the items, but the items that are there multiple times will be returned only once. Voila! You just found out the lookalike of &lsquo;Distinct&rsquo; function in Power Apps.</p>