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How can we modify the workflow to consider it a success even when the item is not found

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Hello all, 

 

Could you do me a favor?

I have three workflows for the finance team, and they are identical because there are many lists related to the workflows, so I divided them into three separate workflows.

 

Let's refer to them as Workflow(1), Workflow(2), and Workflow(3).

If a bank account number meets the criteria of Workflow(1), Workflow(1) will move the item to another list and delete it from the original list. Once the item is deleted by Workflow(1), even though Workflow(2) was initiated, the item has already been deleted by Workflow(1), resulting in the item not being found. This leads to an 'item not found' error, and Workflow(2) interprets it as a failure.

 

If there are several items like this, there will be multiple failures in Workflow(2), eventually causing Workflow(2) to be automatically turned off.

 

How can we modify the workflow to consider it a success even when the item is not found

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  • trice602 Profile Picture
    15,905 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @happyyear ,

     

    It seems like you can configure the run-after for the compose and make it for all status from workflow2 so the compose action will continue even if workflow2 failed, is successful, times out, etc. 

     

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  • happyyear Profile Picture
    633 on at

    @trice602 Thank you so much for your reply. I changed the the configure run after but still I got the message that the the item not found. I don't know why. 

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    trice602 Profile Picture
    15,905 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @happyyear ,

     

    Sorry to hear.  That was an example how to use the configure run-after settings.  If your additional actions downstream are pointing to your create item action, and it doesn't exist, it will continue to throw errors.

     

    If you want the flow to be marked successful after the initial error 'get item', add a terminate flow action and then use the run-after settings.

     

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  • happyyear Profile Picture
    633 on at

    @trice602 Thank you so much!! I got the solution. 

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  • trice602 Profile Picture
    15,905 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    @Hi @happyyear  - also great to hear!

     

     

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    633 on at

    @trice602 Thank you so much again! 

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