Issue when looping inside another loop

[reloverevolt]

Describe the problem/error/question

Hi everyone! I have bumped into the same issue that was described a year ago but has been closed without a solution:

Having an issue with looping (multiple loops in one workflow)

I am having an issue with looping, and I am pretty sure it is me just not grasping things properly the ideal way I need this to go is this: I have a list of counties at the start in a json, that list is then split out into individual county names, 17 in total that county is then sent to my property api and it spits back to me all the properties in that county for sale, usually between 50-500 properties the workflow then goes into a loop requesting details for each property, which I then take…

Shortly, I am trying to loop over items inside another loop but at the second iteration of my parent loop the process does not get inside the child loop.

Basically I have:

Verb Items (set of 3 items): [“eat”, ''drink", “swallow”]
Adjective Items (set of 3 items): [“sweet”, “sower”, “bitter”]
Noun Items (set of 3 items): [“apple”, “juice”, “cake”]

When my workflow first time reaches Done branch of loop for Noun Items it gets looping through the loop of the level above and so on.

Please share your workflow

Share the output returned by the last node

As a result I get:

[{“result”: “eat sweet apple”}]
[{“result”: “eat sweet juise”}]
[{“result”: “eat sweet cake”}]

I expect to result in all combinations:

[{“result”: “eat sweet apple”}]
[{“result”: “eat sweet juise”}]
[{“result”: “eat sweet cake”}]
[{“result”: “eat sower apple”}]
[{“result”: “eat sower juise”}]
[{“result”: “eat sower cake”}]
… and so on

What is the issue and how to achieve desired behavior?

Information on your n8n setup

• n8n version: 1.91.3
• Database (default: SQLite): Postgresql
• n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own, main): main
• Running n8n via (Docker, npm, n8n cloud, desktop app): Docker
• Operating system:Ubuntu

[hubschrauber]

n8n nodes already loop their input items. You probably don’t need your own loops at all.

[reloverevolt]

You are right! That was just a simplified demo of what i needed for a project. I was developing a website scraper. But this split out - mostly approach did work great. Thank you!