Error Handling; Continue did not continue

[tburk]

While executing the command to run a program or file, within an Error Handling loop with the 'Continue' option selected, we are expecting the task to continue under any error. This does not happen, is this by design, or, should the task complete to the last command line? The error that occurs is as follows:

The Program/File 'C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Automation Anywhere\Automation Anywhere\My Exes\_BCBB3.exe' that you are trying to open, could not be found.

Thanks,
Tom

[forumsupport]

Hello Tom,

The expected behavior is, when a task runs and encounters an error in Begin Error Handling and End Error Handling block then the task would continue after this Error Handling block i.e after 'End Error Handling' command.

We have attached a sample task for your reference. To run this task at your end, please copy attached .atmn file under location, 'C:\...\My Documents\Automation Anywhere\Automation Anywhere\My Tasks' folder and run it.

This task is opening a file that does not exist. When the error occurs at line #3, the task would continue from line #6.

In addition, please find demo on Error Handling at,
http://www.tethyssolutions.com/Error_handling.html

Hope that helps.

[tburk]

That sample works as expected. We are getting unexpected results from our task error handler, that file has just now been sent to Rushabh for analysis. Please obtain that atmn file from Rushabh for review and comment letting us know why it is not working.

Thank you.

[forumsupport]

Hello,

We looked into your task. In that, the 'End Error Handling' is the last line of the task. If an error occurs the task should continue after 'End Error Handling' however, there are no command(s) after 'End Error Handling' to continue with so your task would end in that case.

What you can do is, move the position of error handling block. For e.g. if an error can occur in a loop then put 'Begin Error Handling' and 'End Error Handling' block inside the Start loop- End Loop block so that task can continue with next iteration in case of an error. The text format of task would appear as follows,

Start Loop “Each row in a SQL query dataset"
Begin Error Handling; Action: Continue; Options: Log to File
Comment: LOOP FOR ALL TASKS IN BATCH 'n'---START EACH TASK IN BATCH
.
.
.
End Error Handling
End Loop

In addition, you can use multiple ‘Error Handling’ command in a task.

Hope that helps.

[tburk]

That did help, thank you.