Error Handling in Power Automate flows | Try Catch Scope Action 

More useful for citizen developers. Thanks for the video. Excellent explanations!!!

As a beginner , You helped me lot to learn Power Platforms . Thanks for such detailed videos .🤗

There are many times I have used the try catch block in a flow in the past but still this topic holds something new for me to learn.. Thanks Reza for updating all these scenarios in such a beautiful manner. Keep it up, you are doing an incredible job.

So I had this situation today. My flow failed trying to send a simple email. Something was going on with our power platform today. From what I can tell there is no way to catch an error with an email notification if notifications are the cause of the failure. PS: GREAT VIDEO!

Thank you, again, Reza! You have so many useful videos, with lots of tips and tricks. I find them so useful for my work! Many Thanks!!!

I am a regular visitor of Reza's videos and as usual his signature top class is visible. Great work Reza!

So Awesome. that I had to watch 5 times and take Screenshots to begin to understand. I will definitely have to incorporate this.

Thanks Reza for all your extremely helpful and informative videos. Have learned a lot about Canvas App and Power Automate from them 🙏.

Pretty much same as the previous error handling from another video from you. But this time it is very clever to add a termination with 'Fali' in the end so the status remains as it should be. Geniues Reza!

Very good video. Answered my questions around error handling in PA precisely and resolved my current issue. Thank you!

Thank you! This is something my flows desperately need..

Great job! Very good explanation, organization and also dividing the video by chapters, was a great help, thank you very much!

Thank you for the detailed and thorough explanation on this one. I found it very helpful

brilliant lecture, really cleared my concepts as a beginner

Perfectly explained, thank you so much for this video.

Thank you so much, a well needed explanation. Happy Monday!

This is FANTASTIC. And so well explained. Many thanks!

Thank you. I was on the right track with the Scope thing, but I was sticking it in a parallel within the apply to each loop so my flow was still failing. Basically, I know that my flow was going to fail on several and I didn't really care to know that it failed, so I just wanted the ones that failed to drop off and be ignored without failing the flow. I just added a scope that ran after apply to each failed and then terminated with a successful message. I know this isn't ideal, but I am dealing with a condition that isn't evaluting correctly which is supposed to drop the items that are failing anyway. Until I get that bit figured out, this is a good band aide to allow the flow to run as "normal".

Learned a lot of new things in this video. Thanks for uploading 😀

Was looking for this, thanks!

As always, brilliant materials to learn from. Thank you for sharing Reza.

Man this is such a very informative and useful video - thank you for doing this and sharing it

Man Reza, this is just brilliant! Thanks so much

Another awesome video Reza !!! You're the best.

GREAT VIDEO! Very useful

Very good tutorial. Thank you for your explanation. Very useful!

Excellent video. Thanks

And its really amazing!!!!!!! Worth watching this to handle the errors in flow!

Thank you Reza. Helped me a lot.

Hey Reza, this some great work you are doing. I am playing with the try catch scope. I have nested conditions and if a nested condition fails, the error message reflects the top parent, not the nested action. How do I get the nested action error message?

Excellent video, subscribed because of it. Great work please continue!

Thank you Reza. This came in really handy

Brilliant - thanks again for your great work!

Hi Reza, very informative video and clear instructions on handling errors. Unfortunately, one of my mailbox handling flows failed with a connection error, which rendered the options to send email or Teams message , or to add an entry to a SharePoint table all inoperable. What would you recommend for connection issue error trapping?

I’ve always wanted to know about this. Thanks 🎉

Merci merci et encore merci pour cette vidéo qui m'a énormément aidé

Thank you @Raza 🙌 Your videos are always useful ✨

Great work!

Great informative video as always. Very good job!

I have always learned a lot watching these videos. One question... is the formula length() or lenght() or are both spellings accepted?

Thank you for this solution! As usual, explained clearly and professionally. I do have a question though: I am creating (or updating) an item in SharePoint Online via my flow. Occasionally it fails due to one of the item properties being incorrect (such as the user in a People field not being found). Is there a way to catch the error and return which propety exactly was the point of failure? (I'd like to report the property and possibly try updating again in the catch block with that property excluded.)

Hi Reza, great video, I finally got around to creating my own Error Handling Template for my department to use. One question, in the last segment, where you handle the Apply to each and the array created from an error in the Create item action. How can I incorporate that functionality into the previous segment's Try/Catch solution? Does every Apply to each scenario need its own check?

Thanks Reza! Great as always sir. I have a quick question. Is there a way to throw an error message to the user in power apps if a flow doesn't run? I'm just thinking of a flow doesn't run then the user could just be sitting there waiting and not knowing there's an error and the error has been reported to the developer. Appreciate any help you can give on this idea!

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!!!!

Great explanation

Hi Reza, I have a question I hope is an I have the action "Add user to group" (the Azure AD one) When I try to create the expression actions('Add user to group') I'm getting error: Correct to include a valid reference to 'Add user to group' for the input parameter(s) of action 'Send_an_email_(V2)'. Is there something wrong with the syntax because my action has spaces in the name (I notice yours just has a single word)? If so how do you handle those?

Hey thank you for the video, it helps me a lot!!! But i have one question. I do the same exact thing, but in my Try-block i have the action "Run a flow built with Power Automate for desktop 2". And when i add in the Filter Array the expression "result('Run_a_flow_built_with_Power_Automate_for_desktop_2')" it gives me an it gives me an error message . I don't know why.

Thanks a lot - as always. 😂👍🏻😎 Maybe I have missed it, but could you do also a video about error handling when using a cloud flow triggered by Power Apps?

One another great video Reza 👏🎉

Is it possible to restart a flow at the point where there was a failure? In my case people had signed a document but afterwards there was a failure when updating the sharepoint data. I corrected the failure and want to start again with the update of sharepoint ...

Excelent video and easy to understand the explanations. Quick question though, we know that the "Result" expression only gets the top level actions. Do you know any ways to get the error details from the succeeding levels or from the actions like (If Statement, Switch or within a nested Scope)?

Great video! Only change I made was change action('Action_Name)?['error']?['message'] to outputs(Action_Name')?['body']?['error']?['message']. Any reason why you used action() instead of output()? Action() returned null error for me

Thank you so much for this video. I have a quick question. I would like to get the error from a Parse JSON action. The flow is throwing the error, "Correct to include a valid reference to 'Parse JSON' for the input parameter(s) of action' when using the expression: actions('Parse JSON')?['error']?['message'].

Awesome Video Thanks Reza!. Do you recommend retry policy for any specific error types. Also i believe result function goes only one level deep. Thank you

Great tutorial again!!

Amazing video ! Thanks so much !!

You rock, as always Reza!

Hi Reza! This is great stuff. Keep it up. I got a quick question. What expression should I use in the 'Filter Query Expression' for 'Is skipped'?

Hi Reza, this tutorial was very helpful in making any Flow more robust. I'd like to know if a Flow is triggered from Power Apps, how can I import your template to start using it? For my Flow through the App, I recreated the steps you outlined but doing that each time isn't viable, so I was wondering how to go about using the template through Power Apps?

Thanks Reza!

Amazing concept ☺️

Thank you for this great video! Sorry if I've missed this (Ive watched the whole video) but how do you handle errors if you have an Apply to Each loop but there are a lot of actions inside (multiple conditions/actions etc). How can I handle this?

Very informative and helpful video. thanks Reza

thank you so much for this video.

You are the master! Thank you.

Gold! Thank you! Is there a way to view logs across flows or hook it up to Insights etc.?

Thank you Reza

You are great as always.😊 Any videos that you have done or you have with you or you are planning to do in improving the performance of a Canvas app with respect to patch, data retrieval and other operations for very large data sets.

Lets say I have an excel with a 300 fields. Lets also say that I have a lot of expressions manipulating the data before creating new items in SP list. An expression fails for one of the records in excel. Is there a way to know exaclty which field the error is in. It seems like It can only tell me which expression failed but does not tell me on which field the expression failed. With thousands of fields, it would be imposible to pin point where the error took place. Does this make sense?

I loved your video. I have implemented the flow with this solution, and I am getting an error saying "Item not found" however the table is showing and empty message. The Filter Output shows "error": { "message": "Item not found"}. However, the on the Table, under message or error, it is empty. If I force an error div(1,0) the message shows on the table.

Thanks Reza, this is great. Is there a technique for getting errors from actions inside nested scopes?

Hi Reza, thanks a lot for your video as always! May I know how to do the error handling if I have many steps in Apply to each? How can I catch the error message for each step? Thanks in advance.

Awesome, your helping me alot.

The link generation for the workflow run does not work if the flow is shared with other accounts. Then the link has to include a "shared" in its url. Is there a way to find out if a workflow is shared or not during runtime?

Good job! Very informative!

Hello, I am trying to make an automatically reminder email generated through power automate. But I am constantly receiving this particular error. The execution of template action 'Apply_to_each' failed: the result of the evaluation of 'foreach' expression '@triggerBody()?['entity']?['Power BI values']' is of type 'Null'. The result must be a valid array. Can you kindly guide me in this.

Fantastic Video

Hi! Is there a way to capture also the errors inside conditions? I'd implemented this solution and its fantastic but seems it doesn't work when an action inside a condition fails. I mean, it sends the information but its not very helpfull, like "An action failed. No dependent actions succeeded.". Thanks in advance!

How do you handle error in specific item in apply to each? Item 1 - has error in send email but the variables already have the values, and then it proceeds next step and then the value from item 1 has been carried over in item 2

Can I use this flow for logic apps as well because I have a similar flow as the third approach since, I have a foreach I had to go with the append to array approach, but it seems to error out saying inputs in action are not defined in the template?

Really nice stuff 👍

Hello Reza, thanks for sharing. Will it be possible to get the remaining flow duration before it gets cancelled? Example: we are all aware of 30 days flow running limitations. Assuming that, you are sending daily reminders to the approvals it would be great to show that the flow will be canceled after X days, please take your decision". Any idea how we would achieve it?

Hi, first, thank you for all your great videos. Regarding this video, depending on the error, I am finding that the error message is in different levels. So far I have found the error message at these levels. item()?['error']?['message'] item()?['outputs']?['error']?['message'] item()?['outputs']?['body']?['error']?['message'] I put 3 error messages in my table. Am I wrong? Is there a way get the message more generically?

What if there are lot of actions(outside loop) and also a loop. How do we handle exceptions in such situation?

How can I get error from two actions? i.e "Create Item" and "List Rows" in the "actions" expression?

Excellent Video - sorry for this question but how do i import the linked template in Github into My Flows ? I tried to download the zip and then import as a Solution, and I tried the Legacy import, but both failed for me. Thanks for your help

Very much informative, please share the flow template with us if possible

Wondering, if there is also any way to update the "Approval Status" column in sharepoint as "Failed" once the flow fails?

Good evening Reza, This video was great. One issue I came across and not sure if this is an admin issue. But the link to the workflow gave me an authorization error message. "Error: Authentication failed." Do you know why this may happen? I used the same try-and-catch components.

Yesterday I got an error on a flow sending info from a form to a SharePoint list, a column was originally set to 50 character text, I updated this over a month ago, it still seemed to fail with 65 characters saying column was set to 50 characters, I checked SharePoint, nope it was still 100. I ended up creating another column and copying over the data from the first. But is there a way to refresh it so it gets the new column settings once changed?

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actions('action_name)?['error']?['message'] .... No longer seems to be working, is there a new expression to capture the error message?

Thanks for this Reza! I am running into a 404 error when pasting the link to the workflow though. Any thoughts? Thanks!

Which app do you use for your video recording and narration?

I am using your expression in an email and the url that is output is the expression itself, rather than an evaluation of it - any ideas??

I only got an email notification when the flow complete run after 3hrs. Is there any way to get the error notification while the flow is running rather than waiting till the end of the flow?

Hi Raza great video. However, need your kind expertise here. I followed your steps and in the Scope (Try) I have a set stored procedure actions to be executed from a sql server. my first action timedout (Status: GatewayTimeout) and my timing on the Try block is already 10m .However, the catch block doesn't seems to be working? so as you know the Gateway timeout is only 120 second and this particular action is currently on 12 mins and keep trying. Could you please help? looking forward to hearing back from you

Great Video, how to handle a scenario when a respond to power automate or apps action failed due to timeout. how to handle such scenario in powerapps?

Hi, Do you have any video or error handling way for desktop flows ?

Can you tell me why my flow shows as failed, even after changing 'configure run after-has failed' and the further steps till the end ran successfully?