Alteryx Server rerun workflow when it failed

ADriver

Hi,

I was wondering on Alteryx Server, how can we automatically rerun a workflow if it failed. I have a scheduled workflow run every morning. When there is something wrong, I do not want to manually rerun it when I get to the office. How can I make it rerun? Please advise. Thank you. 

jamielaird

Hi @ADriver 

If the job is failing then will re-running it resolve the underlying issue?

If possible I'd recommend you focus on resolving whatever is causing the workflow to fail rather than re-running until it works. I'm assuming the failure point is outside of the workflow itself, i.e. in the data source it is pulling from, but even so running a workflow multiple times until it works isn't best practice.

If you do want to automate a re-run then you could potentially do this by querying the Gallery API to see the last run job and state for the relevant workflows (https://gallery.alteryx.com/api-docs/#!/admin-workflows.json/GetAppOutputInfoGET) and then use a Conditional Runner macro (in the CReW macro pack) to run the workflow a second time.