Exception Flow to skip Node (not working)

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Hi Team, 
 I am having a tough time to figure out the actual use of exception flows. Let me give my scenario ,Version is 18.4 ,i have got Send Email smart service ;now it fails due to some issues in email address or something like that. Process breaks with a read break on the Send Email smart service. Now I have put an exception flow to skip the node after 3 minutes. I have tried both ways "Skip this Node after xx mins" and "Skip this node at a time". 
 But both are not yielding any results. 
 Process still remains in active state and exception flow is not getting executing ; please let me know what is missing here. 
 
 Thanks, 
 George Jacob

Robert Shankin · Accepted Answer

George - 
 Please have a look at the design shown below. 
 In this example, a time task is started immediately. The timer's duration is set to a period that's longer than we expect the process to last. In this case, a day. If, for some reason, the send mail node fails, 1 day after the process started, it will flow into the "Expired" terminate end task and terminate all activity in the process. 
 For illustrative purposes, I'm showing you the "happy" path and the Exception path. There's 2 terminate end tasks shown. You could use one. Just make sure to use terminates, even on the happy path. That way we can stop the timer and allow the process memory to be recovered by the server. You could use one end task if you prefer, just make sure it's a terminate. 
 Does that make sense?

Exception Flow to skip Node (not working)

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