Advanced Error and Exception Handling in Power Automate Desktop - Complete Tutorial

This advanced video tutorial shows how to handle errors and exceptions in Microsoft Power Automate Desktop. You learn how to use action-based and block-based error handling with the On block error action. The On block error action is like a Try Catch from other programming languages.

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00:00 Introduction
00:49 Inspect the input data
01:59 Create the basic Power Automate Desktop flow
07:24 Action-based error handling
10:25 The On block error action
18:59 Handle system exceptions
30:53 Retry opening an application
36:48 Labels

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[andersjensenorg]

Want more advanced Power Automate Desktop use cases?

[whoisninth]

I usually don't comment on video tutorials, but this one is absolutely in line with expectations and explanations. Thank you very much!

[shaunrowley]

Another exceptional video as there is very little on error handling and this helps so much - thanks again i have saved this as part of my RPA learning the only item I had to add was a terminate process of Excel at the start as being a Windows 11 and Office 365 insider for some reason Excel is held open in background processes but as as soon as I set to terminate at start the flow works without issue

[lb]

This is Awesome. Thank you for the detailed explanation Anders.

[geraldinedelacruz]

Wow, another great video tutorial!! just when I needed right now as I’m working on error handling scenarios for my PAD scripts.
Thank you so much for this @Anders, it really helps! 💯💯💯

[uartim]

I took the PL-500 exam and scored 707. Barely pass. It is a difficult exam to me.
There were quite a lot steps ordering questions and 2 scenario questions. Many words to read😂

I also need to determine whether it is the best option to do a certain flow under a scenario. 😮 really out of my expectation.

The learning material for PL-500 does not provide the core part of the exam. I spent most of my time on reading the materials...

Hopefully I can learn more from your videos to enhance my PAD skill Subscribed.❤

[cherillynkassels]

Hi Anders,
Thank you for this video.
One question, could you make an advanced error and exceptions video that shows a subflow with records in an excel sheet ? I’m from Suriname and currently working with power automate but I am still learning.
Great video’s btw.
I'll hear from you ✌🏻

[Farhan-xgbf]

Please make a video on multibot architecture in PowerAutomate

[steve_aventura]

Very excellent tutorial. One point I’m confused on. When you set variables like ‘result’ why does that actually get written to excel.

[zanguinetti]

Hello Anders, thanks for your videos. Please read my case and give me feedback. My case: I created a PAD Flow, then I used it in a PA Cloud Flow, I shared this PA Cloud Flow to my coworker as an user. He could run my flow but he also could copy the flow and then he could see my step by step, my variables, and it is supposed that these must be confidential. Do you know if I can limit an user to just run a share flow but not to copy it? Sorry about my english if I had errors.

[shwetapandit]

Hi Anders Jenson, Could you please explain how to resolve errors/exceptions with web browser automation (like failed to click, failed to populate text etc, while running unattended)
Thanks

[ammadkhan]

Anders could you please create video on PAD to create queues functionality without using power Automate cloud flow queues? Thanks in advance. Best regards

[nathanmora]

Thank you big dog going on 4 years together lol

[Dinesh-qlok]

Hi Anders, what if we want to check length of the password and throw a business exception? It won't be captured by on block error right?

[sriranga]

Hello Anderson, Thanks for the wonderful teaching.. I have a Question here i saw your web scraping videos handling with dynamic link to copy and paste. Is that possible to download the multiple pdfs in the same page with random dynamic value.. unable to achieve that task. Tried multiple option by using loop conditions it doesn't work. In my case dynamic value is __link13, __link15, ,, some time it starts with __link3 __Link5, , , can you suggest some solution to click the pdfs directly
one by one sine my first pdf element is dynamic also the other pdf are dynamic. Need to download and want it to sabe in unique folders

[aniketsingh]

Hey anders i wanna know one thing.. Can i install power automate desktop using my company id without paying any amount or have to pay by using employee I'd also?

[steve_aventura]

For this to work all of the code in the loop has to be inside the block. If the loop has multiple actions the errors can occur in multiple actions. How is this handled?