Okta Workflows How-To: Delete Multiple Table Rows

Max Katz November 29, 2022

Okta Workflows is a no-code platform for automating identity processes. 

This blog post is based on a question asked during office hours or the #okta-workflows channel in MacAdmins Slack: How to Delete Multiple Table Rows?

Getting started

A Workflows table provides fast-short-term storage for flows. Check out Workflows Tips #20: How to Manage Tables for Fast Short-Term Storage to learn when to use tables.

In this guide, you will learn how to delete multiple rows.

You have a table that holds positive and negative numbers. You want to delete all rows with a negative number.

Workflows table

The solution has two flows:

  1. A flow to find all rows to delete (with negative numbers)
  2. A helper flow to delete each row

The main flow searches for rows with negative numbers and passes each row to a helper flow for deletion:

Searching table rows

The flow has the following cards:

  • Tables – Search Rows finds all the rows with negative numbers
  • A list of rows with a negative number is passed to List – For Each. For Each calls a helper flow ([Helper] Delete row) for each item passing its Row ID

The Tables – Search Rows options view:

Search Rows options

Search criteria (to change it click Change link – see above screenshot):

Searching table criteria

To pass a row ID to the helper flow, click the down arrow for Row ID field and choose Item > Row ID:

Setting helper flow input

The helper flow deletes each row by its Row ID:

Delete a table row

The flow will delete rows with negative numbers:

After deleting rows with negative numbers

In this short how-to guide, you learned how to delete multiple table rows.
 

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