Hi Everyone, how can I make a flow fail, that a calling flow will be aware of the failure. I have an advanced flow, which I start from another advanced flow (like an subroutine) and when in the subroutine-flow an error occurs, I want to give this back to the calling flow to proceed on the red line…

There are no subroutines. Best is to call the original flow with for example a number tag that indicates the Error. The excellent app Advanced Triggers has an option to return values but after trying it, I think the use case does not justify the complication.

[image] bischowski: I have an advanced flow, which I start from another advanced flow (like an subroutine) and when in the subroutine-flow an error occurs, I want to give this back to the calling flow to proceed on the red line. You could set a variable in the called routine to indicate succe…

In 3+ years I’ve never experienced a flow itself fails for unknown reasons It’s always: me: I did something stupid, like deleting a variable which still was used in a flow a variable which got an invalid value somehow app crash / paused app: this causes all related flowcards to become unavailable…

Well, starting a flow from another flow with text (JSON in this case) seems to be very close to a subroutine/procedure call in my opionion. The start-flow-with-text-card has a error-branch. How to use this branch, when there is no way to make the flow fail/return error state? But nevertheless, than…

[image] bischowski: The start-flow-with-text-card has a error-branch. How to use this branch, when there is no way to make the flow fail/return error state? Simple log needs to do the job until this might be added in the future. Grab your chance here, and ask why its absent, and/or propose w…

[image] Peter_Kawa: Grab your chance here, and ask why its absent, and/or propose what you’d like to see: There are a lot more important things to do for athom. Many of them are already asked. I will try to find the time to join the event, but … hmm, how to say. Even though I love homey for m…

How to make a flow fail (return an error, exception)

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How to make a flow fail (return an error, exception)

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