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DLeggett
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Flow trigger for when a new entry is added to the flow run history log

Please be kind, I am new to power automate and have grandioso ideas.

 

So I created a fairly lengthy work flow.  I have built-in error handling for specified conditions.  However, during my last test run, the flow failed while reading data from the source file into a variable.  In theory, I would need to have a "trigger Email upon failure" for EVERY action of the flow.  This obviously is NOT realistic.  So my thought is, is there a way to trigger a 2nd flow when a new entry is made to the 1st flow's log history?  I then could check the status of each new entry and if it is a Failure THEN trigger a generic flow failed email.  Thoughts?

 

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@DLeggett For each action that you want to log a failure for you will adjust the Configure run after setting. This setting allows you to specify the conditions under which an action should run based on the outcome of a previous action. 

 

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You can add a parallel branch and insert an action that you'd like to run if the flow has failed.

 

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However, best practice would be to adjust your flow to handle the errors accordingly. Sometimes if you adjust the logic of your flow and/or add some expressions—you can avoid the errors all together.

 

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7 Functions You Need to Know | ️Expression Essentials: Part 1

 

In this section, I'll cover how to get dynamic content with an expression when the dynamic content you need isn't listed in the dynamic content menu.

 

In the full tutorial I cover 7 functions you need to know when getting started with expressions.

1️⃣ empty()

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I cover how to use these functions in expressions and I’ll also cover common mistakes when it comes to writing expressions and show you a few tips and tricks along the way.

 

As a beginner or even an intermediate flow builder—expressions can seem a bit complex at first, I’m going to try to simplify it for you. If you want to level up your flows by writing expressions—keep watching!

 

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DLeggett
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 Thanks for the tutorials.  So I do have significant error handling for errors I can predict.  However, there are about a dozen times that I parse data from a string array element, and if that data is junk, for whatever reason ,I figured adding an error handling to each of those steps would be time-consuming and slow the flow down.  In addition, I am unclear on what things trigger an API call that goes against the limit of our license.

 

I can add the additional parallel error handling, but is there no way to access the run history log for statuses?  That to me would be a better route.

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