Error Handling - Power Automate
Ever had a Power Automate flow fail silently while you were busy with something else? If you’re running multiple flows throughout the day, relying on Microsoft’s delayed failure notifications isn’t enough. In this post, I’ll show you how to build a proactive try-catch error handling pattern that emails you the exact error details and a direct link to the failed run — so you can start fixing issues immediately. Using Scopes for Try-Catch Error Handling Firstly, you need to group your main steps of a flow into a Scope control. There are various advantages of a scope. It makes your flow appear more compact, can make it easier to navigate and understand, and most importantly means you can use the result() expression to obtain the history of an action. In my example below my main steps are in the try scope with the magic all happening in the catch scope. Note that the result expression can only return first level actions but can also be used to retrieve the results of actions in an apply to each. Watch my video to see how this might be possible. ...