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Try Previous step again if stuck/error within a loop

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Hi,

I am new here and have started some automation via desktop automate. I have been tasked with retrieving pdf attachments on invoices from our web-based ERP system. There are times where depending on web connection speed, the flow step executed much faster and it times out. It usually occurred in my loop, for example,

Go to URL
Click on icon
wait
right-click on the embedded container with pdf
key press - right click save -as {usually around this part is where it freezes up if page loads to slow}

is there a way if it is stuck to repeat the last step and have it right click again?

Thanks!

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Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi,
You can add error handling to many actions. Click the "On error" button in the bottom left. See below:

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Hi, yes thanks. Was aware of that!
What I meant was how to repeat the previous action that was before, not the current action, hope that make sense!

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Hi,
Yes that makes sense.
You can try adding a "Label" before the action you want to repeat.
Than simply add error handling -> "Go to label" in the action that fails.
Beware that this could result in an infinite loop 😁 You may want some type of "counter" or timeout to avoid this.

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You can surround the steps you expect to error out in an "On block error".

Then in the parameters, you can tell it to "continue flow run" and "go to beginning of block", so any error in this block will reset back to the first action.

Be careful, because this can end up in an infinite loop if a situation exists where it errors out every time. It would be best practice to set a limitation. You can do this by setting a counter at the beginning of your flow and adding one each time the error resets, then you can set a limitation whether to proceed or not:

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These are all good ideas, thanks all! I will try these.

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DivyaSingh2609 2 on at

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Hi @MichaelAnnis

What if I want a same actions to be repeated in error of every action in my loop
Suppose my actions are working fine
But I have session time out popup after 20-30min
And I want to click on continue
So I want this to be over every action on error under my loop
And once the UI element for continue is clicked
I want to to again try to repeat the action where error occurred,,

Is it possible ??

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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You can run error subflow and then repeat action:

click on New Rule to run subflow, but then select continue flow run and repeat action to set this up.

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