How to iterate nested arrays

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in a module “Search” i get this response

{
“data”: {
“records”: {
“2025-03-12”: [
{
“user_id”: 5,
“first_name”: “Ponnappa”,
“last_name”: “Priva”,
“not_needed”:“x”,
“not_needed2”:“x”
}
],
“2025-03-13”: [
{
“user_id”: 5,
“first_name”: “Ponnappa”,
“last_name”: “Priva”,
“not_needed”:“x”,
“not_needed2”:“x”
},
{
“user_id”: 6,
“first_name”: “Alex”,
“last_name”: “Marinkovic”,
“not_needed”:“x”,
“not_needed2”:“x”
}
],
“2025-03-14”: [
{
“user_id”: 5,
“first_name”: “Ponnappa”,
“last_name”: “Priva”,
“not_needed”:“x”,
“not_needed2”:“x”
},
{
“user_id”: 6,
“first_name”: “Alex”,
“last_name”: “Marinkovic”,
“not_needed”:“x”,
“not_needed2”:“x”
}
]
}
}
}

i want to iterate in every object of “records” and foreach of these, to iterate and keep only the data needed (in my json above the not_needed fields are the one to ignore), so to output a result like

{
“2025-03-12”: [
{
“user_id”: 5,
“first_name”: “Ponnappa”,
“last_name”: “Priva”
}
],
“2025-03-13”: [
{
“user_id”: 5,
“first_name”: “Ponnappa”,
“last_name”: “Priva”
},
{
“user_id”: 6,
“first_name”: “Alex”,
“last_name”: “Marinkovic”
}
],
“2025-03-14”: [
{
“user_id”: 5,
“first_name”: “Ponnappa”,
“last_name”: “Priva”
},
{
“user_id”: 6,
“first_name”: “Alex”,
“last_name”: “Marinkovic”
}
]
}

how to achieve that?

2

Records is a collection. To iterate it you first need to convert it into an array.

To do this, you can use the built-in function toArray —

{{ toArray(collection) }}

For more information, the function’s documentation can be found in the Help Centre. You should also complete the tutorials in the Make Academy.

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

P.S.: Investing some effort into the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make.

3

i’m able to iterate records, but i dont know how to iterate euach element of it.

4

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