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Hello!  I'm new to prefect and I'm trying to use the prefect cli to register my a flow.  Every time I run it, it returns with "0 registered."  I even tried to register one of the tutorial programs (command:  prefect register --project "misc" --path 03_parameterized_etl_flow.py) and it did the same thing.  I was able to get one flow to register using the flow.register() method in my script, but I can't get the cli to detect my flows.

Hi <@U031X3KUBSB>! Welcome to Prefect. Are you doing this command in the directory with the file?

Could you show me the log? Does it detect nothing? Or detect no flow with changes?

Do you see this:
```Collecting flows...
======================== 0 registered ========================```
or
```  Registering 'unique logger'... Skipped (metadata unchanged)
================== 0 registered, 1 skipped ==================```

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that’s very weird. might be a bug on windows

Can you share the contents of the file you’re passing?

I just discovered "prefect run" doesn't work either, but running the script in python works.

<@U01CEUST9B5> I started trying it with some custom flows that I wrote, but right now I'm literally trying to register one of the tutorial files from the docs/github.

03_parameterized_etl_flow.py

You are defining your flow in a function then only calling that function if your file is run as a script

So when `prefect run` or `prefect register` look for flows in your file, we do not find them.

You could do something like this instead:

```
def get_flow():
    with Flow("etl") as flow:
        airport = Parameter("airport", default="IAD")
        radius = Parameter("radius", default=200)
    
        reference_data = extract_reference_data()
        live_data = extract_live_data(airport, radius, reference_data)
    
        transformed_live_data = transform(live_data, reference_data)
    
        load_reference_data(reference_data)
        load_live_data(transformed_live_data)
   return flow

flow = get_flow()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    flow.run(airport="DCA", radius=10)```

OK, thank you!  I was writing my own scripts using those tutorial files as a template, so that must be my problem there.

So, you need to have initialized flow objects in the main body of the program for it register them?

Yes because it evaluates the script then looks for Flow objects and pulls them for registration