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Flow randomly fails for reasons I don't understand

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I don't know how to ask for help for this, but it is frustrating. I have a flow to extract data off a webpage. It works some days, it breaks other days. It's a long loop, and it will often do 3/4 of the flow, as an example, and then break. There is no rhyme or reason or consistency, it just breaks on steps that it has done hundreds of times before.  As an example of my frustration, it broke this morning on a step to close a web page. When I look at the action details, I see this:

CharlesBrewer_0-1682952848814.png

How do I translate this? It looks like it was successful, but then it still did the error control retries, which were also successful, which makes no sense? And then it failed on the last retry? And then when I look at the flow, it clearly DID succeed, the window was closed. So why is it succeeding and then telling me it failed?

Keep in mind this is a part of the loop. I know the step works because it literally does this step hundreds of times before deciding it failed this time, even though it didn't. It's very frustrating. 

 

 

 

  • Riyaz_riz11 Profile Picture
    4,214 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Hi @CharlesBrewer 

    Before press button use some delay or wait from web page actions or else use exception set one variable and if any that value is not empty again repeat action.

     

    Regards

    Ahammad Riyaz

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  • CharlesBrewer Profile Picture
    697 on at

    You can see in that screenshot above I slapped a 7 second wait in there, for step 50.

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    4,214 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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