Trycatch?

[ramkrishna2k3 (Ram)]

1. What is trycatch, when it is used, can this be used in all the workflows. Please explain.

[pavanh003 (Pavan Harisha)]

Hi,
Try catch is like
try what you want to automate and if it fails or sometime some error occurs means instead of failing the bot it will go to catch block where you have to take care what needs to be done once the bot fails
and yes you can have try catch for any number of workflow

hope this helps,

Regards,
Pavan h

[bcarp (Bryan Carpenter)]

In simple terms, the try catch is used to handle exceptions/errors. If you need UiPath to do something other than throw an error, you would use a try catch to perform some action when the exception is thrown. A single activity can be placed inside the try catch or even an entire workflow. You can find more detailed information in this conversation:

Best Practice: Do you regularly utilize Try Catch on the whole workflow?

The closest thing I have done to wrapping a whole workflow in a try catch was on a current project I did wrap a large piece of a workflow in a try catch because the web application it interacts with is only so stable/reliable so I needed a way to compensate for it not responding or taking too long to render something. If an action fails in trying to find a particular element or something it’ll error out and try and move on to the next record to try and process it. Other than that I tend to wrap …