If I set up a "flow of flows" orchestration and schedule it, and the flow of flows all runs before the scheduled runs for the individual flows, will the flows just run again (unnecessarily)?

Yes those runs are independent so you want to remove the schedule of the subflows

Great, thank you!

You mean automations? Are on your Cloud or Server? They are configured on the subflow level I think

cloud

Yes it will if they are in the sub Flow definition

I've specified them in the prefect cloud interface under settings > cloud hooks. Is that what you mean?

Ah yeah I think that should work

One other question - Can I easily set up 2 sets of orchestrations within the same "flow of flows"? I need 3 tasks to run in 1 group and separately, 3 in another. Right now prefect is defaulting to running A, then B, then C, then D, even though D is unrelated to A, B, and C. I even specified the right upstream flows.

Are you talking about running this concurrently?

yea

You need to use the

LocalDaskExecutor

because the default executor is a sequential single-threaded executor

flow.executor = LocalDaskExecutor()