Manage a process that has irregular report dates

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I have a process that runs every day to check to see if a report has been generated in a portal. I am using today’s date to select from a list of reports. The reports can show up any weekday randomly.

Sometimes the process fails (could not bring application to foreground). Robot is installed as a service and cannot figure out why this one and others occasionally fail with this error.

If the process fails it misses today’s date and can and does miss a report.

What are some recommended ways to retry the process before the date has passed and also IF it fails to get it to check the previous date or dates that were missed? This without running unnecessarily reports that have been downloaded.

This is an example of a list of reports where we will grab one that matches today’s date. The actual table is much longer. Sometimes there are more than one report on the same day.
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@mike_stahl

Failing can be for different reasons…first check the acreenshot when failed to observe if any other windows application is blocking ui.

And also we need to ensure vm is signedout before running unattended

For the retry one way you can do it save the date or name of the report which ran successfully…so if it fails we can check if the previous report is same then dont download else it means the previous run failed and we need to download the report…we can save the detailsin assets

Cheers