Items in Power Automate

 

 Meaning of items() in Power Automate

In Power Automate,
items() is a function that represents the current item being processed inside a loop, such as an Apply to each action.

Think of it like this 👇
If you have a list of rows and Power Automate loops through them one by one —
items() refers to the single row currently being processed.

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🧩 Example

Suppose:

Your “List rows” (List_rows_1) returns:

{
  "body": {
    "value": [
      { "fullname": "John Doe", "emailaddress1": "john@contoso.com" },
      { "fullname": "Jane Smith", "emailaddress1": "jane@contoso.com" }
    ]
  }
}

You then add an Apply to each action:

Apply to each: value = outputs('List_rows_1')?['body/value']

Inside this loop:

• On the first iteration, items() =

  { "fullname": "John Doe", "emailaddress1": "john@contoso.com" } ```
  

• On the second iteration, items() =

  { "fullname": "Jane Smith", "emailaddress1": "jane@contoso.com" } ```
  

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🎯 Using items() Inside the Loop

You Want	Expression
Full Name	items('Apply_to_each')?['fullname']
Email	items('Apply_to_each')?['emailaddress1']

If your loop name is something else (say Apply_to_each_2), use:

items('Apply_to_each_2')?['fullname']

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🧠 Analogy

You can think of it like:

for each record in list_of_records:
    current_record = items()

So items() = the current record being processed in the loop.

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