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Exception Handling of Child Flow

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Hey guys,
 
I have built a complex process where I've split the queue loading and the execution of the job in different flows (queue loader and worker).
 
I've made a flow called Main that calls the queue loader and the worker.
 
 
 
In the worker flow I've built the process and I've done very specific exception handling for business exceptions.
 
However, when I call the worker flow from the main flow and the worker flow fails, it always returns the same generic exception, which I can see by running the "get last error" action.
 
This is the generic exception: "Location: Subflow: main, Action: 7, Action name: Run desktop flow | Error message: Failed to run flow"
 
How do I retrieve the actual exception that happened in the worker flow and not a generic one?
 
 
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    I think you'll need to capture the details of the error in the Child flow and pass that back to the Main flow as output. Then you'll have it when you determine that an error occurred.  I don't know of any way to get the details of the error in the child flow from the Main flow other than that.

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