Custom API and Pagination

[yukonn]

Hi Team,

I would like to know how you guy handle the Pagination for custom api. I have 90K+ item list and it cannot load into to gallary. I got connection time out error. I don't want to use "Next" or "Previous" because we are developing Mobile app not web page. I want to load 100 item into gallery and then load next 100 item when user scroll the gallery. How can we do that with custom api?

Regards,

[WillPage]

I too have this question, which brought me here.

I think a workaround would be to load the result of the query from the API into a variable using the PowerApps for Flow trigger and action (to return the result), because in Flow, you can automatically follow the pagination links in the response and add them to the record, as per this thraed: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Connecting-To-Data/Example-of-Paging-with-Skip-and-SkipToken-in-... . You would then use your varible in the Items property of the gallery. I'm going to try it now and follow up on this thread if it works.

[WillPage · Accepted solution]

If you're interested, it works (up to 5000 items only though, so maybe not useful for 90k records).

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@WillPage wrote:

I too have this question, which brought me here.

I think a workaround would be to load the result of the query from the API into a variable using the PowerApps for Flow trigger and action (to return the result), because in Flow, you can automatically follow the pagination links in the response and add them to the record, as per this thraed: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Connecting-To-Data/Example-of-Paging-with-Skip-and-SkipToken-in-... . You would then use your varible in the Items property of the gallery. I'm going to try it now and follow up on this thread if it works.

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