Intro

Make sure your flows can handle when things don’t go as expected: Error Handling and write a Log.

Learning Objectives

• Error Handling
• Write a log
• JSON Parsing

Description

• Create two number variables, A and B
• Compose
  • Add the two variables to each other
    • Expression: add(variables(‘A’),variables(‘B’))
• What happens if you change B to a text?
  • Error we need to handle
• Use the Configure run after setting and create the rest of the flow, that
  • Write a log with the status and an error message, if it appears
  • In case of an error send an email with
    • The flow name
    • Time of the flow run
    • The status
    • The error message
    • The link to the flow
  • Set the status of the flow to Failed
• Create a Scope with three Scopes in
  • Try Catch
    • Try
    • Catch
    • Finally
  • Let it handle exceptions in our flow
    • “Configure run after” in the following action
• Advanced
  • Download the Excel data for the lesson
  • For each row fill in the missing (create a log)

Hints

Code (expression) to get the link (URL) to a Microsoft Power Automate flow:

concat('https://make.powerautomate.com/environments/',workflow()?['tags']?['environmentName'],'/flows/',workflow()?['name'],'/runs/',workflow()?['run']?['name']) 

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