---
title: "ProgressUpdate.add"
description: "Add work to the total amount tracked by a progress indicator."
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---

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# ProgressUpdate.add

import { Fragment } from "astro/jsx-runtime";

import ApiReference from "@docs/components/ApiReference.astro";

import ParamField from "@docs/components/ParamField.astro";

```python
def ProgressUpdate.add(count: int) -> None
```

Add work to the total amount tracked by a progress indicator.

Call `add` before or during a task when the task discovers more work to complete.

## Parameters

**count**

type: int

required: true

Amount of work to add to the progress indicator total.

## Returns

`None`

<h2 id="request-example">Usage example</h2>

```python
progress = context.progress("process-items")
progress.add(len(items))
```

Source: https://tilebox.com/docs/api-reference/python/tilebox.workflows/ProgressUpdate.add/index.mdx