In today's digital landscape, automation is a crucial tool that can significantly streamline various tasks. One aspect of automation that often confuses users is the Loop-List Slider. This article aims to demystify this feature, helping you understand how it works and how to effectively use it in your automation processes.

The Loop-List Slider is a feature that allows you to dictate how your automation handles multiple rows of data. Think of it as an instruction manual for your automation scripts, telling them how to process data iteratively. This becomes particularly useful when using tools like Google Sheets to loop over multiple rows or when dealing with pagination scenarios, where repetitive actions are needed.

Let's delve into the mechanics of the Loop-List Slider.

Essentially, the Loop-List Slider dictates the length of each loop cycle and the specific steps to repeat before moving forward.

Most users have the loop ending with the last step of their automation. However, this can vary based on your specific needs. Sometimes, the loop starts at the first step or at a specific point when a new page is loaded in a pagination scenario.

Step 1- Click to edit your list trigger

Step 2- Select the loop number

Step 3- We can drag the slider to run the steps as per wish

Okay, so the way that this loop slider works is it's telling us how you want your automation to handle all of the rows of data you're trying to loop over. So this is assuming you're using something like Google Sheets to loop over a bunch of rows, or what you have is like, I don't know, a pagination situation where you want to run a couple steps.

And then repeat a bunch of scrape and click steps for every page, something like that. Um, anyways, if you're using loop, this video should help you understand what this slider does. So what this is saying right now, I'm just going to set this up as this, so I can explain how the automation will run. What this automation will do is it's going to start at step one, like it always should.

And it's going to run all the way until step 10, just as a normal, right? As long as we don't have any steps resetting us somewhere, it's going to run steps one through 10, all the way through. Then, as long as our list is being told to run more than one time, what's going to happen is the automation is going to reset from wherever the first green dot is.

So it's going to run steps 1 through 10, then it's going to come back to step 5 and repeat steps 5 through 10, how many ever times you specify here. So if this is your entire automation, it'll run steps 1 through 10. those three times. If you have it set up like this, it runs one through 10 and then five through 10.

If we have something like this, it runs one through seven and then five through seven, right? Right. Bunch of bunch, bunch, bunch. And then it'll go all the way through. So this, this slider basically tells us how long, once we enter it, how many times we should repeat this loop before continuing on. If there's anything, most users, their loop.

The end of the loop is just the last step of their automation. This one is usually either the first step, or it's whenever you get to the page that you're wanting to loop over. So hope this clears up kind of what this loop slider does, how it helps you and what it means. Um, from the video that I saw, it looks like you have a bunch of scrape steps and your automation is set up like this.

And so what it's doing is it might be running through one full cycle of this. Um, but it's just not able to perform the logic you're looking to because it looks like we want, um, all of those steps to run, or at least most of those, something like this inside of that automation you got.