Tag: Bulk operations

This blog post will cover how to batch insert items in SharePoint with Power Automate. Our Flow will explore the SharePoint REST API calling the Batch endpoint and inserting 1000 items per time. For every Batch request made, you can add multiple Changesets up to 1000 Changeset requests. Likewise, for each Changeset, you can only add up to 1000 requests. That’s why our example will try to insert 1000 items per request just to make things simple.

In the tests I have made, using this Flow we were able to insert 5000 items in 16 minutes. All of my tests were executed in a Free Microsoft Flow account. In the other hand you probably may experience a better performance if you have a licensed account. Consequently, using a licensed account, you will be able to read more than 5000 rows.

In addition to that, it’s important to say that our test is going to read data from an Excel file. Everything will be static like the filename and the table name from the file. But this doesn’t mean that you cannot do the same by passing dynamic values. If you create a flow that runs tied to a file creation event in SharePoint, you will get the data needed to make it dynamic and save your time with this automation.

First steps on the Flow

In this example I chose to manually trigger a flow, just for it being easy to test. Needless to say tat you can change that for whatever you want.

This blog post will cover how to batch delete items in SharePoint with Power Automate. Our Flow will explore the SharePoint REST API calling the Batch endpoint and deleting 1000 items per time. For every Batch request made, you can add multiple Changesets up to 1000 Changeset requests. Moreover, for each Changeset, you can only add up to 1000 requests. That’s why our example will try to delete 1000 items per batch request just to make things simple.

In the tests I made, using this example we are able to delete 500 items in 2 minutes, 5.000 items in 12 minutes and 15.000 items in 40 minutes. All of my tests were ran in a Free Microsoft Flow account, so you probably may experience a better performance if you have a licensed account.

First steps on the Flow

In this example I chose to manually trigger a flow, just for it being easy to test. Needless to say tat you can change that for whatever you want.