How to have re-execute tasks that fail or partially fail?

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Behzad Jazayeri — Question ·
Hi 
We have multiple workflows that work with Google Sheet for adding data. These workflows often get 503 errors. The re-execution is set automatically but often time even the re-execution fails. Is there a way to have these re-execution run again if all attempts fail due to 503 error?

Pabbly Support — Reply ·

Hi Behzad,

Thanks for reaching out.

The 503 'service unavailable' errors you're seeing on your Google Sheets steps are a temporary outage on Google's side, not an issue with your workflow configuration. Pabbly Connect's auto re-execution retries failed tasks on a fixed back-off ladder (roughly 5 min, 15 min, 30 min, 1 hour, 2 hours), up to a maximum of 5 attempts. Once all configured retries are exhausted, the retry path is paused and a failure email is sent, so re-execution won't automatically run again beyond that cap.

At that point you would need to re-execute the failed run manually:

1. Open the failed row's detail drawer and click Re-execute. You can choose a full re-run or 'from the failed step onwards'.
2. To handle several at once, select multiple failed rows and choose Re-execute selected (Failed only, or Failed + skipped).

Thanks & Regards,
Arshil Ahmad
🌐 Pabbly.com
Behzad Jazayeri — Reply ·

Is there a way to make this re-run also automatically?

Pabbly Support — Reply ·

Hello Behzad,

Apart from setting up a number of retries in the Auto-re-execution setting, there is no other method to re-execute the failed/partial failed task except to execute it manually.

Thanks & Regards,

Adeel Akhtar
🌐 Pabbly.com

Behzad Jazayeri — Reply ·

So we cannot create another workflow for this?

Pabbly Support — Reply ·

Hello Behzad,

No, task re-execution can be performed manually, not automatically.

Thanks & Regards,

Adeel Akhtar
🌐 Pabbly.com

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