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Power Automate Timeout Error: With no error

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I've been noticing this for weeks. My desktop flow is failing even though there are no issues.
It always says Timeout has Expired

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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    The 'Timeout has expired' error appears when you have an action that is set to wait for something and then throw an error on timeout. For instance, Wait for windowWait for window contentWait for web page contentMove mouse to image (if you enable waiting for image to appear), etc. These actions have timeouts available. If you enable and do not handle the error in any way, it will stop the flow when the event that was expected does not happen. The error will simply say 'Timeout has expired'.

     

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  • PaperRex Profile Picture
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    Hi Agnius

    Upon checking the desktop flow. there are no failed actions 

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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    This only shows the first few actions. Click the "See all" button to view the entire log.

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    Hello Agnius

    is this the latest one? I clicked see all and this is the top part

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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    It seems like it. Strange that it doesn't show up at the logs. I don't really use these myself too often, as I build in custom logging in my flows.

     

    Do you have any wait actions there that could throw an error on timeout?

     

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    8 on at

    Hi Agnius,

     

    Would like to know If how do you build custom logging in your flows?

     

    Thanks

  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    I have a sub-flow that logs whatever I want to log into a text file. Then I have another sub-flow that uses the Get last error action. I call both of these on error (via the On block error action), meaning that I get the specific error message and then I log it to a text file.

     

    Well, it is actually much more advanced than this, but this is a very simplified way of doing it, that you could also easily implement.

     

    Anyway, do you have any "wait" type actions in your flow? I would suggest looking at those, because those are the only type of actions that can throw a "Timeout has expired" error.

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  • PaperRex Profile Picture
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    Yes I do have "wait" actions in my flow. but I'm sure that every wait action that I made has an timeout.

     

    Right now I received again a timeout error with no error. 

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    could this be an VM issue? I still got no idea why this happens.

     

  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    Well, if you have your wait actions with a timeout, that is exactly where the flow fails - a timeout is exceeded on one of your wait actions, because the event that it is waiting for does not occur. And this makes your flow fail. The problem here lies with whatever happens before the wait. For example, if you're clicking a button and expecting some window or content to pop-up, but the button click does not work as intended, the wait will fail.

    The problem here, however, is the fact that you are not entirely sure which wait it is that fails, so it is harder to determine why that happens. You might want to add an On block error action on your flow to handle your error and to call a sub-flow that will do a Get last error action and then Write text to file to write the error to a text file. The output of Get last error will have the action name and number of the action that caused the error. So, you will be able to pinpoint the exact wait action that times out.

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