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hello everyone, how do i flatten/join a task of tasks?

let’s say i already have tasks a,b,c defined but i would like to group them as a task, perhaps because i want a conditional flow: for one branch i want to execute a,b,c in order, otherwise i want to execute d,e,f

how do i go about this? without redefining a task which does what a,b,c/d,e,f already do?

The conditional task will skip `a`  if the condition doesn't match. Skipping is propagated to downstream tasks, so skipping `a`  skips `b` , which skips `c` . This means you can keep your tasks seperate, and still have a group of tasks execute conditionally.

Like this, maybe?
```with Flow("f") as f:
    true_tasks = f(e(d()))
    false_tasks = c(b(a()))
    ifelse(cond(), true_tasks, false_tasks)
    merge(true_tasks, false_tasks)```