topic Re: Understanding pipeline failure in Pipelines

Understanding pipeline failure

P_work — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:33:12 GMT

I have a get metadata activity. The directory may or may not exist. If it exists, pipeline gets the list of child items and then proceeds to a for-each on success. If the directory does not exist, the get metadata activity will fail. When the get metadata activity fails, the pipeline fails. How could the pipeline succeed if the directory does not exist ? An if activity is not possible(desirable) as have for-each.

Re: Understanding pipeline failure

P_work — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:53:29 GMT

From what I understand, the get metadata activity on completion needs to point to a wait AND all skipped activities must also point to this wait. Now the pipeline succeeds.

Re: Understanding pipeline failure

wardy912 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:53:42 GMT

Hi P_work

Starting with an IF statement will resolve your issue

Set your 'Get Metadata' to show if the directory exists

Then your IF statement to use the output

If true, complete your pipeline activities (in my example I have a set variable tasks to test). If false, do nothing. The pipeline will still succeed. See below the result when I removed the file from my directory, giving the output 'False'

I hope this helps, please give a thumbs up and mark as solved if it does, thanks!

Re: Understanding pipeline failure

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:13:21 GMT

Hi P_work ,

Thank you wardy912 for the response provided!

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Re: Understanding pipeline failure

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 05:39:50 GMT

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Re: Understanding pipeline failure

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