Automatically re-run workflow on input/output failure?

Question

I am running my workflow from the Alteryx gallery and we use DCM.  I sporadically get DCM connection errors specifically for the Box input/output tools (from the marketplace:

https://marketplace.alteryx.com/en-US/apps/417663/box-tools%29

).  If I re-run the workflow it resolves itself, no changes are needed.  But I have workflows that have to run outside of business hours and I have no one to re-run them if there is a failure.

Is there some sort of error handling I could build into my workflows that would re-try the connection if it fails, or just if the workflow fails re-try running it?  I feel like I should be able to accomplish this with macros or something like that, but I haven't been able to figure out how, the Box tools are one direction only.  I asked our IT team if there was any type of automatic re-try option in our Alteryx gallery but there is not (or we don't have it enabled for us), it will just re-run the next time it is scheduled.

SBJAR1 · Answer

Hello and thank you!  Unfortunately our IT team says they will not enable anything for us on the server side.  Any solution would need to be inside the workflow.

Carlithian · Answer

So I would aim to use the Server API tool, if you build your error handling to ensure that the workflow doesnt error, and have a control container connected off of that to trigger if the connection fails you can trigger a new job with that workflow on the gallery :)