Working with pagination in Power Automate

[Gopala_Krishna]

In Power Automate when retrieving records from an excel table we might end up getting only a limited number of records at times, this happens due to the pagination limit present for the connectors in Power Automate.

We can set pagination limit for all the actions that retrieves records in bulk such as "List rows" from CDS, "List rows from a table" from Excel Online and other such actions. By default the pagination limit is set to 256. To increase the limit please follow the steps suggested below( the steps suggested are for CDS connector you can follow the same for any connector in Power Automate)

- Select connector and click on the three ellipses (...) for the connector 

- select "Settings" from the connector menu 

- In the settings menu enable pagination option and specify the limit in the settings pane

Once you enable the pagination option and specify the limit the connector action would retrieve the specified number of records. This will help in retrieving higher number of records than the default limit.

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[asdfasdfasfdasf]

why is this pagination even a thing?

In a programming language a for loop never stops early. Why does it do so here?

[JoaoSantos489]

@asdfasdfasfdasf  Number of items that you want to retrieve.

[dareima]

Completely agree with @asdfasdfasfdasf. Why does there even have to be such a thing as pagination? Why can't we choose how many items we want as a result and if we choose nothing just everything gets returned? Having to work with pagination in all kinds of areas is nothing but a pain as Microsoft didn't implement it in all connectors to be just turned on or off.