ADF - How to get Activity to run when only 1 path completes?

Question

I want to send out an error email if one of my activities in my pipeline fails. Ideally, I didn't want to have to make duplicate web activities, 1 for each possible activity that could fail. And I realized that depending on which activity failed, I probably wouldn't even know the name of which activity failed ahead of time (not sure if there's a way to determine the last run activity). So I attempted to put my output error message into a variable and then use whatever output is stored in that variable in my web activity for sending out the email's body text in the web actvity.

Little did I realize my web activity wasn't getting hit because it was waiting on all the set variable activities to complete. My question is there any way to do this without making duplicate web activities?

Answer 1

hey @David Donovan ,
you can achieve this by updating the flow status to 'On Completion' rather than 'success'.

For that select the flow arrow and right click on it and then select: Completion

But Completion expects it to atleast travel via that path and since your's is a case of either or:
meaning it would either travel via 1st path or 2nd path ; so there are 2 steps :

1) either create a duplicate web activity and use each one for the success or failure flow
2) have your main logic in 1 pipeline
Then create another pipeline :
P1 >> Web activity

Answer 2

You can connect multiple outcomes from same activity and it works as OR. so you can drag SKIPPED and COMPLETION to your final activity and it will execute in all situations, Here's an example: