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hey is there a way to run a subset of a flow? ideally I could pick a single task in a flow and any dependent tasks for that specific flow would also be run

this might be what youre looking for <https://docs.prefect.io/core/idioms/flow-to-flow.html>

or maybe this <https://docs.prefect.io/core/idioms/conditional.html>

Hey <@U023LCPST2L>, the short answer is not really. You can make more than one flow object in a script though so you can make another flow that is the subset.
```@task()
def add_ten(x):
    print(f'starting {x}')
    sleep(10)
    print(f'ending {x}')
    return x * 2
    
with Flow('simple map') as flow:
    t = add_ten.map([1, 2, 3])
    s = add_ten.map([10, 20, 30])

with Flow('simple map2') as flow2:
    t = add_ten.map([1, 2])

flow.register('project')
flow2.register('project')```

Yes Zach is right though that maybe you want the Flow of Flows setup. A lot of users use this to trigger subsections of the full logic at a time. This also has the added benefit that different subflows can run on different Executors

For running an individual task, you can use `task.run()` also, but this won’t run all the dependencies attached.