Microsoft Flow Fails

[jayalessi]

I am trying to figure out if a Microsoft Flow fails if it could update a SharePoint List column that would state that the flow failed and on what date. Is this possible?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Jay

[mattias1172]

You can test if an individual action within the Flow fails. 

In the ... for each action, there is a "Configure run after" option.

Inside here, you can set when the selected action will run based on the previous action. In the below example, this is a normal setup where the delete email action runs if the rename file action succeeds. 

You could instead, uncheck "is successful" and check of "has failed" and/or "has timed out". This branch will then only run if the previous action failed or timed out. 

[jayalessi]

Thanks for that, sorry to clarify, I mean if the flow fails as in if it goes past 28 days (which is the magic # of when the flow will break permanently). 

[Jcook]

Hello @jayalessi,

You want to put your actions inside a scope action. Search scope on the add a new action and use this.

Scope is a container for actions.

Than we can set the Timeout policy on the scope to timeout in 27 days. This will timeout after 27 days resulting in a failed action.

Here is an awesome post explaining this:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Power-Automate/Flow-time-out/td-p/772388