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I have 2 scopes inside our automated flow; one which have the actions needed, while the other scope runs if the first scope failed, timeout or skipped, as follow:-

Now for example today one action inside the first scope for renaming a folder failed, so the second scope got reached, as follow:-

where inside the exception scope, i am sending an email to the admin that a flow failed, but how i can parse the Error message details, so i can send it inside the exception email? is this possible?

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My solution is to add after each step the setting of the error_msg variable (Paste inside it body of previous step),

and set the step in case of failure of a given action

You can use this Variable to body of Your message :)

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You can use the result() function with the name of the scope to get a list of all the error messages that were rolled up by actions in the flow. You can then use a ParseJSON on that to get the error messages and details. Since its a scope you'll have to go a couple levels deep in the JSON to get the message you want. But it is there.

Take a look at this blog for more details. Streamlining Error Handling in Power Automate for Better Workflow Performance - ISE Developer Blog

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Thanks for the reply, now i added some test actions inside a test scope, and i intentionally failed one action (which is list all libraries by entering invalid site address):-

Then i got the `result('Scope')`, where i got unstructured JSON, as follow:-

[
{
    "name": "Set_variable_2",
    "inputs": {
      "name": "A2",
      "value": []
    },
    "outputs": {
      "body": {
        "name": "A2",
        "value": []
      }
    },
    "startTime": "2024-12-06T12:08:10.0848768Z",
    "endTime": "2024-12-06T12:08:10.1046236Z",
    "trackingId": "6c4fd1e4-e***3fa1aff0",
    "clientTrackingId": "08584***14474CU10",
    "clientKeywords": [
      "testFlow"
    ],
    "status": "Succeeded"
},
{
    "name": "Set_variable",
    "inputs": {
      "name": "A1",
      "value": []
    },
    "outputs": {
      "body": {
        "name": "A1",
        "value": []
      }
    },
    "startTime": "2024-12-06T12:08:10.1135908Z",
    "endTime": "2024-12-06T12:08:10.1341023Z",
    "trackingId": "87eb7443***9fc5775dd3",
    "clientTrackingId": "085846****814474CU10",
    "clientKeywords": [
      "testFlow"
    ],
    "status": "Succeeded"
},
{
    "name": "Get_all_lists_and_libraries",
    "inputs": {
      "host": {
        "apiId": "subscriptions/****sharepointonline",
        "connectionReferenceName": "shared_sharepointonline",
        "operationId": "GetAllTables"
      },
      "parameters": {
        "dataset": " https://*****.sharepoint.com/sites/Openers11111"
      }
    },
    "outputs": {
      "statusCode": 404,
      "headers": {
        "Date": "Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:08:10 GMT",
        "Content-Length": "199",
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
      },
      "body": {
        "message": "We didn't find a site with this address. Make sure you are entering the exact address of the site.\r\nclientRequestId: 3edcf31b-073c-413a-b66b-11010cfe241f",
        "fromPolicy": true
      }
    },
    "startTime": "2024-12-06T12:08:10.1532243Z",
    "endTime": "2024-12-06T12:08:10.6108655Z",
    "trackingId": "442f4256-9327***9e742f19b371",
    "clientTrackingId": "085846811999****CU10",
    "clientKeywords": [
      "testFlow"
    ],
    "code": "NotFound",
    "status": "Failed"
},
{
    "name": "Compose_3",
    "inputs": " https://***.sharepoint.com/sites/Openers11111",
    "outputs": " https://****.sharepoint.com/sites/Openers11111",
    "startTime": "2024-12-06T12:08:10.1519601Z",
    "endTime": "2024-12-06T12:08:10.15239Z",
    "trackingId": "576e8385-9374-****e6abfdedf8b4",
    "clientTrackingId": "0858468119995***14474CU10",
    "clientKeywords": [
      "testFlow"
    ],
    "code": "OK",
    "status": "Succeeded"
}
]

where the "outputs" will sometimes be a string on other actions it will be Object, also the Failed action and the Succeeded actions has different format for the "outputs",,, i am interested only on the items with "status" = "Failed" >> and on the "message" inside the "body". I tired to use the Parse JSON and i tried to generate the schema from the above result, but the ParseJson action raised this error:-

[

  {

    "message": "Invalid type. Expected Object but got String.",

    "lineNumber": 0,

    "linePosition": 0,

    "path": "[3].outputs",

    "value": " https://***********.sharepoint.com/sites/Openers11111",

    "schemaId": "#/items/properties/outputs",

    "errorType": "type",

    "childErrors": []

  }

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You will need to hand edit the schema for the Parse JSON because Inputs and Outputs can be either a string or an object. Just hand edit it to the following.

     "inputs": {

        "type": [

          "string",

          "object"

        ],

Then you can take the Parsed results and filter them to get just the "Failed" messages. Here's a prototype I used to test your error codes.

The final compose shows the filtered error messages.

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Again thanks for the grate help,, but seems this approach will not allow us to capture the error message if the action which failed is inside a Condition, here what i have and the action that got failed:-

But when i capture the `result('Scope')`, i got that the "Condition4" failed "An action failed. No dependent actions succeeded", but did not get the actual error message, which is that we are trying to rename a folder while one of its files are been in use:-

here is the `result('Scope')` it only mention about Condition-4 and not its actions:-

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{
"name": "Condition",
"inputs": {
"expressionResult": true
},
"startTime": "2024-12-06T23:57:41.415188Z",
"endTime": "2024-12-06T23:57:41.8997307Z",
"trackingId": "3c13d375-97b7-471b-bc6a-210562b7ec35",
"clientTrackingId": "08584680774398372982560517551CU122",
"status": "Succeeded"
},
{
"name": "Get_item-RefreshInfo",
"inputs": {
"host": {
"apiId": "subscriptions/17aa0056-4c1a-4ef0-8fb5-915a677afc95/providers/Microsoft.Web/locations/westeurope/runtimes/europe-001/apis/sharepointonline",
"connectionReferenceName": "shared_sharepointonline_1",
"operationId": "GetItem"
},
"parameters": {
"dataset": "***Sales",
"table": "bf2bb131-dc11-4ef2-9671-0e407830aa43",
"id": 3020
}
},
"outputs": {
"statusCode": 200,
"headers": {
"Cache-Control": "max-age=0, private",
"Transfer-Encoding": "chunked",
"Vary": "Origin,Accept-Encoding",
"X-NetworkStatistics": "0,525568,0,0,53,0,24440,13",
"X-SharePointHealthScore": "3",
"X-MS-SPConnector": "1",
"X-SP-SERVERSTATE": "ReadOnly=0",
"DATASERVICEVERSION": "3.0",
"SPClientServiceRequestDuration": "123",
"SPRequestDuration": "124",
"X-DataBoundary": "EU",
"X-1DSCollectorUrl": "https://eu-mobile.events.data.microsoft.com/OneCollector/1.0/",
"X-AriaCollectorURL": "https://eu-mobile.events.data.microsoft.com/Collector/3.0",
"SPRequestGuid": "f1bd6cfe-f1bc-4ab3-b7aa-10895837b26a",
"request-id": "f1bd6cfe-f1bc-4ab3-b7aa-10895837b26a",
"MS-CV": "oWsJU9FwAKC6dsySblbkeA.0",
"Alt-Svc": "h3=\":443\"",
"Strict-Transport-Security": "max-age=31536000",
"X-Frame-Options": "SAMEORIGIN",
"Content-Security-Policy": "frame-ancestors 'self' teams.microsoft.com *.teams.microsoft.com *.skype.com *.teams.microsoft.us local.teams.office.com teams.cloud.microsoft *.office365.com goals.cloud.microsoft *.powerapps.com app.powerbi.com *.yammer.com engage.cloud.microsoft word.cloud.microsoft excel.cloud.microsoft powerpoint.cloud.microsoft *.officeapps.live.com *.office.com *.microsoft365.com *.stream.azure-test.net *.microsoftstream.com *.dynamics.com *.microsoft.com onedrive.live.com *.onedrive.live.com securebroker.sharepointonline.com;",
"MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices": "16.0.0.25506",
"X-Content-Type-Options": "nosniff",
"X-MS-InvokeApp": "1; RequireReadOnly",
"P3P": "CP=\"ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo CNT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE PUR UNI\"",
"X-AspNet-Version": "4.0.30319",
"X-Powered-By": "ASP.NET",
"x-ms-environment-id": "default-afe6e33c-1b2a-41e5-a7e9-9128ddcf79bf",
"x-ms-tenant-id": "afe6e33c-1b2a-41e5-a7e9-9128ddcf79bf",
"x-ms-dlp-re": "-|-",
"x-ms-dlp-gu": "-|-",
"Timing-Allow-Origin": "*",
"x-ms-apihub-cached-response": "true",
"x-ms-apihub-obo": "false",
"Date": "Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:57:41 GMT",
"Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
"Expires": "Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:57:42 GMT",
"Last-Modified": "Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:57:42 GMT",
"Content-Length": "2905"
},
"body": {
"@odata.etag": "\"4\"",
"ItemInternalId": "3020",
"ID": 3020,
"Tilbudsnummer1": 1009,
"Customer": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference",
"Id": 1,
"Value": "Siemens BRA"
},
"Customer#Id": 1,
"Project_x0020_name": "9001",
"State": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference",
"Id": 2,
"Value": "Completed"
},
"State#Id": 2,
"S_x00e6_lger": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser",
"Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|***",
"DisplayName": "Robotic Process Automation",
"Email": ***",
"Picture": "***Sales/_layouts/15/UserPhoto.aspx?Size=L&AccountName= ***"
},
"S_x00e6_lger#Claims": "i:0#.f|membership| ***",
"Assigned_x0020_to": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser",
"Claims": "i:0#.f|membership| ***",
"DisplayName": "Robotic Process Automation",
"Email": " ***",
"Picture": "***Sales/_layouts/15/UserPhoto.aspx?Size=L&AccountName= ***"
},
"Assigned_x0020_to#Claims": "i:0#.f|membership| ***",
"Status": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedReference",
"Id": 2,
"Value": "Won"
},
"Status#Id": 2,
"Production_x0020_number": "P5019",
"Modified": "2024-12-06T23:56:11Z",
"Forventet_x0020_DB": "0",
"Forventet_x0020_DG": "0",
"Test": "2024.00000000000",
"Test1": "12.0000000000000",
"FolderCreated": true,
"Created": "2024-12-06T23:51:34Z",
"Author": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser",
"Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|rp ***",
"DisplayName": "Robotic Process Automation",
"Email": " ***",
"Picture": "***Sales/_layouts/15/UserPhoto.aspx?Size=L&AccountName= ***",
"Department": null,
"JobTitle": null
},
"Author#Claims": "i:0#.f|membership| ***",
"Editor": {
"@odata.type": "#Microsoft.Azure.Connectors.SharePoint.SPListExpandedUser",
"Claims": "i:0#.f|membership| ***",
"DisplayName": "Robotic Process Automation",
"Email": "r ***",
"Picture": "***Sales/_layouts/15/UserPhoto.aspx?Size=L&AccountName= ***",
"Department": null,
"JobTitle": null
},
"Editor#Claims": "i:0#.f|membership|rpa@ ***",
"FolderID": 1273,
"LengthName": "4.00000000000000",
"{Identifier}": "Lists%252fTilbud%252f3020_.000",
"{IsFolder}": false,
"{Thumbnail}": {
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"Small": null
},
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"{Name}": "",
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"{Path}": "Lists/Tilbud/",
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"{HasAttachments}": false,
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}
},
"startTime": "2024-12-06T23:57:41.9249647Z",
"endTime": "2024-12-06T23:57:42.2289373Z",
"trackingId": "b1245c30-0ba7-4d44-83f3-0e630434315d",
"clientTrackingId": "08584680774398372982560517551CU122",
"code": "OK",
"status": "Succeeded"
},
{
"name": "Condition_4",
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"expressionResult": true
},
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"endTime": "2024-12-06T23:57:44.1284377Z",
"trackingId": "ccff9245-4ac7-4791-b4b1-da19979c4df5",
"clientTrackingId": "08584680774398372982560517551CU122",
"code": "ActionFailed",
"status": "Failed",
"error": {
"code": "ActionFailed",
"message": "An action failed. No dependent actions succeeded."
}
},
{
"name": "Get_items-MovedQuotationIDs",
"inputs": {
"host": {
"apiId": "subscriptions/17aa0056-4c1a-4ef0-8fb5-915a677afc95/providers/Microsoft.Web/locations/westeurope/runtimes/europe-001/apis/sharepointonline",
"connectionReferenceName": "shared_sharepointonline_1",
"operationId": "GetItems"
},
"parameters": {
"dataset": "***Sales",
"table": "89343297-9869-4e35-816a-0e22ea99120a",
"$filter": "Title eq '3020'"
}
},
"outputs": {
"statusCode": 200,
"headers": {
"Cache-Control": "max-age=0, private",
"Transfer-Encoding": "chunked",
"Vary": "Origin,Accept-Encoding",
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"X-MS-SPConnector": "1",
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"DATASERVICEVERSION": "3.0",
"SPClientServiceRequestDuration": "53",
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"SPRequestGuid": "b048ea92-6c9f-435b-b0f8-4c355f5d7541",
"request-id": "b048ea92-6c9f-435b-b0f8-4c355f5d7541",
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"MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices": "16.0.0.25506",
"X-Content-Type-Options": "nosniff",
"X-MS-InvokeApp": "1; RequireReadOnly",
"P3P": "CP=\"ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo CNT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE PUR UNI\"",
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"X-Powered-By": "ASP.NET",
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"x-ms-apihub-obo": "false",
"Date": "Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:57:41 GMT",
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"Expires": "Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:57:42 GMT",
"Last-Modified": "Fri, 06 Dec 2024 23:57:42 GMT",
"Content-Length": "12"
},
"body": {
"value": []
}
},
"startTime": "2024-12-06T23:57:42.2512408Z",
"endTime": "2024-12-06T23:57:42.4689707Z",
"trackingId": "8c9cbae3-02b8-4cee-9142-fc7bca26208a",
"clientTrackingId": "08584680774398372982560517551CU122",
"code": "OK",
"status": "Succeeded"
}
]

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If you want to drilldown inside the condition to look for errors then put all the things on the Yes side inside a Scope action. Then add an action if the Scope fails to get the error from the scope.

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Ok then this means i will need to modify all the flows and i have to encapsulate the related actions inside additional Scopes.. i were asking about doing a general modification to the workflow to get the error which is been exposed inside the UI:-

but i am not planning to modify the buisness logic of the workflows just to be able to capture the errors,, this means modifying all the flows for all the solutions + retest everything.. not sure what else we can face then. so at this stage i will prepare a list of the common cause of the error and send them to the user and admin once the workflow fails..

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