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Welcome to the fifth and last part of this series of blog posts on How to throw custom exceptions inside Logic Apps. In all those posts, we talk about the following: The last approach we want to address in this series is another out-of-the-box idea: using an API exposed in API Management to throw back the exception. This approach is similar to the previous one.

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