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Is there any way to get task results in a flow state handler?

Hey <@U01JV6A4RHT>, you can't modify the context. I think there are a couple of ways to achieve this, but could you tell me more about what you're trying to do?

I wanted to use a flow result handler to send a message

But I wanted to add some data to that message

Some of the flow results, you know, like success! 41 files transferred

that sort of thing, just some basic metadata about what happened and how

I’ve scoured google and the docs, tried it half a dozen ways, and just can’t seem to figure it out

You may have to use FlowRunView <https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/backend/flow_run.html#flowrunview|here>. Instantiate it inside the flow handler with `FlowRunView.from_flow_run_id(prefect.context.get("flow_run_id"))` inside the state handler. After that, you can use `*FlowRunView.get_all_task_runs*()`, which gives you a list of `TaskRunView` objects. Each `TaskRunView` object can be used to get the result using the `.get_result()` method. This is all new in 0.15.0 so I haven't tried it myself quite yet but I think it should work

Is there a better pattern for doing this?

I just need to let accounting know whether it was pass/fail and how many uploads were moved through

Check <https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/C014Z8DPDSR/p1625870774443500?thread_ts=1625099514.314400&amp;cid=C014Z8DPDSR|this> . You can keep track of the state I guess and then feed that to another task for reporting

I think I saw you have a talk coming up, good luck, I hope it goes well

That code snippet is slightly different because he needed task inputs instead of results for his reporting.