What is the purpose of a Repeat in a Server Action?

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Can someone explain what a Repeat does?

Why is it used after a Query?

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Hey Keith,

Let’s say you want to send a personalized email to a group of people. You could do a query, and then for each item in that query (the repeat) you could have a send mail action, with custom content that comes from the query.

Or maybe you need to insert a bunch of items into a new table, based on the query. You use the repeat to perform all the inserts, and can even manipulate the data or create new values using the set value action.

But a repeat can also be used for things like POST parameters, or JSON resultsets where you want to spin through the items and perform a set of actions.

Think of it as a “Schedule API workflow on a list” from Bubble, but without the need to schedule, it happens right away, and fast.

–Ken

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Ok, so if I’m using the “Single Query” there’s no need to use a Repeat, correct?

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Correct.