Keep the first or last items with Limit

Limit — Keeps the first or last items and drops the rest — passes on only a number of items. After Sort, it gives the top ten customers by spend, or the five newest orders. It also keeps a workflow from sending a hundred messages when you meant one.

Who can do this

Workspace Admins and Editors, on every plan.

Steps

1. Select + after the items. In the step picker, open Data and select Limit.
2. In Keep, type How many items — 10 unless you change it.
3. In From the, keep Start for the first items or choose End for the last.
4. Select Run this step, then check Output.

Output

The items kept, unchanged and in their order, with any files they carry.

Good to know

• It runs once for all the items that reach it. Inside a loop it limits that batch only.
• Fewer items than the number all go through; nothing is added. Keep set to 0 drops every item.
• Use Sort first to choose which items are first — Limit keeps them in the order they arrive.
• Dropped items are not an error. They do not go anywhere else; to send them down another path, use Filter or IF.

If something goes wrong

Related

• Sort items
• Keep some items with Filter
• How items move through a workflow