Search for users (V2) driving a do until loop

[rheiniluoma]

Howdy All!

Thanks to this forum, I can make individual branch conditions work when a user is found or not with Search for users (V2).

What I'm trying to do is build a username based on this rule:

First Initial + Last Name -- fairly common, normal, but occasionally gets collisions - if the username exists:

First Initial + Middle Initial + Last Name -- cool.. can build that and it works :

First Initial + Middle Initial + Last Name 2 -- ok I can do that too...

But then what I really want to do is iterate that number until we no longer have a collision

Joe M Smith:

jsmith 

jmsmith

jmsmith2

jmsmith3..4..5..6...

So search v2 2 does middle initial last name - works fine, but search 3 is the one that starts adding the number:

What I'm trying to do is rerun, the Search For Users 3 with the newly incremented variable, and then recheck.

I'm at a loss as to how I'd do this.

When I paste it in, I end up creating a new search for users object, instead of reusing the existing one.

[rheiniluoma · Accepted solution]

K.. so I figured it out.

I had to set a variable based on the "not found" condition, and then control the loop with the variable.\

Inside the loop I had a new lookup that set the variable.

[v-LilyW-msft]

Hi @rheiniluoma 

Thanks for your posting here and sharing the solution in the forum as it would be helpful to anyone who encounters similar issues.

Please consider accepting your reply as an answer if this could solve your problem so that this thread will be marked for other users to easily identify!

Best Regards