Power Automate: run the flow even if an action fails
Inside a flow, there may have many actions and if one of them fails, the flow will be automatically stopped with a failed state but I can change this configuration manually so even if one action fails, I can tell the flow to keep running until the end.
For that, I will have to configure the “run after” option of the next action. For instance, I have this flow:
If the “run script 1” fails, my flow will stop to run:
As you can see, “run script 1” has an error “not found” and “run script 2” has been skipped and in the history, I got this information:
In spite of this error, to keep the flow running, I will configure “run after” of “run script 2” since it is the next action after “run script 1”. I will click on “run script 2 -> settings -> run after”:
I will expand “run script 1” and since “is successful” is already selected by default, I will include “has failed”:
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NOTE:
- I am telling to trigger “run script 2” even if “run script 1” is successful or failed
- I can also include “has timed out” if I believe that “run script 1” may take very long to complete and may get a time out error
NOTE: just above “run script 2”, we can see coloured dots corresponding to the configuration
This is the result when running the flow:
As you can see, “run script 1” has failed with the same error but this time, “run script 2” completed successfully and in the history, I got this information:
In the other hand, since the status is “succeeded”, there is no way to know that “run script 1” has failed except if I go inside the flow by clicking on:
If I don’t want to do that each time, the best way is to get a notification, read Power Automate: send a notification by email when a flow fails.
In case if “run script” will fail and I want “run script 1” to run, I will need to repeat the same configuration in the “run after” option for “run script 1”.
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