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Link to other docs on the failOnIgnore option (#5122) [ci skip]
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Signed-off-by: James A. Fellows Yates <jfy133@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Adam Talbot <12817534+adamrtalbot@users.noreply.github.com>
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: Whether the `workflow.failOnIgnore` config option was enabled.

: See {ref}`process-error-strategy` for use-cases of this option.

`workflow.fusion.enabled`
: Whether Fusion is enabled.

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- **errorStrategy `finish`**: Nextflow will allow any other existing tasks to conclude (but not submit any more) and report an error.
- **errorStrategy `ignore`**: Nextflow will continue submitting tasks for the remaining 95 samples, complete the workflow, and report a successful pipeline completion.
- **errorStrategy `ignore` and `workflow.failOnIgnore` set to `true` in configuration**: The same behavior as setting the errorStrategy alone, except the pipeline will return an exit status of -1 and report an error.

See {ref}`metadata-workflow` for more information on `workflow.failOnIgnore`.
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The `retry` error strategy allows you to re-submit for execution a process returning an error condition. For example:
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