Understanding pipeline failure

[P_work]

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.

[v-tejrama]

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[wardy912]

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!

[P_work · Accepted solution]

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.