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Hello folks, i am trying to find a way to give a flow runs a name (currently its generated dynamically in prefect, see screenshot)
Is there a way i can configure a flow run name in a code? I don’t see any parameter in `flow.register()`
I looked into the documentation but couldn’t find it.

There's no parameter for this in `flow.register()` because you're wanting to set a flow *run* name (not the *flow* name). Flows are registered once and then can be run an arbitrary number of times afterwards, each run would get a different name.
To specify the flow *run* name you could:
• provide the name in the UI when starting a new run;
• provide the name as a parameter when running the CLI or with a GraphQL mutation (<https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/flow-runs/creation.html#flow-run-names>)
• use `prefect.tasks.prefect.StartFlowRun` or `prefect.tasks.prefect.create_flow_run` and provide the `run_name` parameter: <https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/tasks/prefect.html#startflowrun>

if you want to rename a flow run based on another task you can use this:

```@task
def rename_flow_task(name: str):
    flow_run_id = prefect.context.get("flow_run_id")

    client = prefect.Client()
    return client.set_flow_run_name(flow_run_id, name)```

Thanks <@U01AGSHH6UR> and <@U024U48CSJC>.
this helps :pray: