Continue

Continue

Type: continue  ·  Package: Core Activities v1.0.8

Skips the remaining activities of the current pass of the loop and goes straight to the next one. Unlike Break (which exits the loop), Continue only skips one iteration and the loop goes on. Use it to skip elements you don’t want to process — a row without data, an email already read.

How it works

When it runs inside a For Each, For Loop or While, it abandons the current iteration and the loop continues with the next element (or the next evaluation of the condition). It usually goes inside an If.

• In For Each, the indexVariable position keeps advancing, so the next element arrives with its correct index.
• It passes through an If, a Try / Catch (it does not trigger the catch; the finally runs) or a Retry, but not an Invoke Playbook.

Required parameters

None.

Optional parameters

None.

Output

This activity does not return a value.

Example

Loop through rows and skip the ones without an email, without stopping the loop:

For Each   items = table   itemVariable = row
 └─ activities:
      If   condition = isEmpty(str(row["Email"]))
       └─ then:
            Log   level = warning   message = "Row without email; skipped"
            Continue          // move on to the next row
      SMTP Send   to = str(row["Email"])   subject = "Notice"

In this example, when the row has no email the warning is logged and Continue skips the sending, moving on to the next row.

Only inside a loop

Like Break, Continue only applies inside a loop, and affects the innermost one when loops are nested.

Common errors

Message	Cause and fix
continue	A Continue ran with no loop around it (or inside an invoked playbook): the execution fails with that message. Move the Continue inside the loop.

Related activities

• Break — exit the loop completely, not just skip a pass.
• For Each / For Loop / While — the loops where it applies.