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I'm having trouble understanding how Contexts work. This code always seems to return None
```prefect.context.get('flow_run_name')```
How do I get the flow run name (like zealous-dormouse) from inside the flow?

Hi <@U01PW2TAH2S>!

I believe that will only be populated if the Flow is run using an orchestration backend (Prefect Cloud/Server) and not if you’re calling `flow.run()`

Let me make sure that’s in context :thumbsup:

I am using the Prefect Cloud orchestration backend

<https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/utilities/context.html>

Looks like that should be available to you

Can you show me that line of code in its larger context? Are you running it inside of a task?

```batch_task = BatchSubmit(job_name=prefect.context.get('flow_run_name', 'RF Training Job'))(job_queue=export_result['job_queue_arn'],
                                                                        job_definition=export_result[
                                                                            'job_definition_arn'],
                                                                        batch_kwargs={
                                                                            'parameters': {
                                                                                'x_train': x_train_location,
                                                                                'y_train': y_train_location,
                                                                                'model_location': model_location,
                                                                                'max_features': max_features,
                                                                                'min_samples_leaf': min_samples_leaf,
                                                                                'min_samples_split': min_samples_split,
                                                                                'n_estimators': n_estimators,
                                                                                'n_streams': n_streams,
                                                                                'random_state': random_state}})
AWSClientWait(client='batch', waiter_name='JobComplete')(waiter_kwargs={'jobs': [batch_task]})```
this in run inside a with Flow() block

This won’t work unfortunately, `prefect.context.get()` needs to be called from within a Task’s `run` method, not just from inside the Flow’s context block

We could make a change to the `BatchSubmit` task so that the job name can be parameterized from context

<@ULVA73B9P> open “Parameterize ‘job_name’ for BatchSubmit from Context”

<https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues/4222>

So I should be able to wrap the BatchSubmit call in a task and be able to access the context there? When I try that I get Could not infer an active Flow context.

I think you’ll need to copy the code from the BatchSubmit task into a custom task in order to achieve your goal until we make the improvement to the Task in the library

<https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/master/src/prefect/tasks/aws/batch.py#L7>