ADF - Skip multiple activities

Question

Is there a way to skip a set of activities in a pipeline ? In my pipeline, I execute a meta data activity to get the list of files from a fileshare, and need to execute the subsequent activities only if there are any files returned. How can I do this ? I thought I can put all the subsequent activities in a if condition, but the subsequent activities contain foreach, and not able to move the foreach within the if (as this is not supported).

Also dont want to move all the subsequent activities into a child pipeline, then the original pipeline is almost empty. The original pipeline is to execute a set of activities for the list of files that I read in the meta data activity.

Answer 1

As a workaround, could you try to use Validate activity to check if file exists. Based on success, it should process files further else on failure some notification activity etc. as shown in diagram in this thread - just-want-to-validate-if-a-file-exists-in-my-data.html

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