try catch not working

I wrote a custom powershell script and have it run in a workflow.

I'm having an issue with the try catch statement. If I remove try catch and just run the command inside the try method, the workflow executes fine. However, when a try catch is added, the commands inside the try method do not execute. Anyone have an answer to this issue?

try {
    Send-MailMessage -From $From `
        -Subject $Subject `
        -To $To `
        -BodyAsHtml $Body `
        -SmtpServer $Smtp `
        -Attachments $Report `
        -ErrorAction Stop
    }
catch {}

0 JohnnyQuest over 5 years ago

Have you tested this with some statements in the Catch section? e.g. write text to a log file
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0 jessie salgado over 5 years ago in reply to JohnnyQuest

Yes I did.

This even works if I run it in a powershell console independent of active roles. It just doesn't run from the workflow. Apologies for not replying sooner, I didn't get a notification of the reply.
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0 JohnnyQuest over 5 years ago in reply to jessie salgado

I have found in some cases that the '-ErrorAction' switch on individual cmdlets doesn't work. So instead, I set it globally (at the top of the script) thus:

$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
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0 jessie salgado over 5 years ago in reply to JohnnyQuest

The error action does work for the send-mail cmdlet as I've ran it multiple times in stand alone scripts outside of Active Roles workflows. If it errors, the catch statement always catches. If it doesn't error, the message goes out as intended.

However, with the workflow, there is no indication of error and no message ever goes out. The workflow ends as if it completed successfully.
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