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Error Handling Nested Actions in Power Automate

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Posted on by bstroescu

Hello,

I was looking at a way to get the error message from nested actions inside a Scope container. I have the example below:

The "Scope Space" action has 3 actions: there is a "Condition" with a "Compose" action nested, there is a "Condition 2" with a "Compose-String" nested. I can use result('Scope_Space') to get the output, but if the compose actions fail inside the conditions, I won't be able to see the actual error message from the Compose action. All I see is the error message from the first level "An action failed. No dependent actions succeeded.":

Is there a way to get the actual error message from the nested action? Using child flows is not a good idea because in the real scenario where I have this flow there are about 6 levels of nesting.

Any ideas or resources to read would be helpful. Thank you!

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Sundeep_Malik 6,499 on at

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Hey @bstroescu
Try this:

Add that compose in a scope action. Outside that scope make another compose. Set its configure run after to has failed.
In that compose write.
result('ScopeName') [Default: result('Scope')]
This will give show you the action name, inputs/outputs, result of the action(succeeded, failed).

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Hi @Sundeep_Malik,

Thanks for the reply. I tried that and the syntax: result('ScopeName') [Default: result('Scope')] doesn't work. Not sure what you were trying to do there.

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@bstroescu
Only write

result('ScopeName')

result('Scope') is just the default because if you don't rename the scope then it is just the scope.

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