Hi all 👋 I have a scheduled

Flow

(runs daily on a

Schedule

with a

CronClock

). I'd like to generate names of a particular format for the runs. (Rather than the defaulted random word-pair names). Is that something I can do programmatically as part of the

Flow

object? Can I use a callable to some parameter of the flow to determine run names? Any help is appreciated!

Hey @Rob Douglas, this can’t be done at the moment but you can use the

RenameFlowRun

task inside the flow to change the name after it’s created. The supplying of names is on the roadmap though

Thanks!

Any ideas on how to get the ‘flow_run_id’ from the running flow? Doesn’t seem like you can get it in prefect server from the context

What are you trying? You should be able to with

prefect.context.get("flow_run_id")

this doc seems to think that only prefect cloud sets this in the context https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/utilities/context.html

Ah I see your point. I can include that in a currently open issue around that page. This may have been written before Server existed

oh cool - so it’s available then? (trying it now…)

yes it should be

hey @Kevin Kho - sorry to resurrect this thread, but I was wondering if there is anywhere I can follow the progress of:

The supplying of names is on the roadmap though

So I think when I said this, Orion was public yet. This is more of an Orion thing, and will not be implemented in current Prefect

but perhaps you could try using a state handler to set a custom flow run name - see here: https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/C014Z8DPDSR/p1636024112265800?thread_ts=1636020453.264500&cid=C014Z8DPDSR

Anna is right that you can do

RenameFlowRun().run()

inside your Flow state handler.