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Michal Mucha
12/11/2020, 12:21 PMHi! Perhaps silly question - I was so excited to see my first flow work out very well on Prefect Cloud, that I went on to register a second one - what I found is, it archives and overwrites the first flow. When I try to register the first flow, it again archives and overwrites. What am I doing wrong? I am creating flows using the with: context manager, I am calling them different names and even separate "projects". The flows come from different files. I went through the docs and couldn't find any note on that
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emre
12/11/2020, 1:34 PMThat is weird, a flow should only be archived if a new flow with the same name and project is registered, maybe you are setting flow name or project wrong? I never heard of any problem where flow registers archive unrelated flows.
Can you share some code, maybe we can spot an issue there.
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Michal Mucha
12/11/2020, 3:33 PMThanks, I thought that was weird too!
here goes, I changed the variables representing flows to
flow1flow2Flow 1
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VERSION = '1'
with Flow('RunScreen', schedule=schedule) as flow1:
saved_screen_path = t_download_screen()
final = t_upload_screen_to_onedrive(saved_screen_path)
if __name__ == "__main__":
flow1.register(project_name="anonymous-automation", version_group_id=VERSION)Flow 2
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VERSION = '1'
with Flow('EmailReports', schedule=schedule) as flow2:
for l in labels:
attachments_paths = t_download_attachments(l)
t_upload_report_to_onedrive(l, attachments_paths)
if __name__ == "__main__":
flow2.register(project_name="anonymous-automation", version_group_id=VERSION)i've logged in to prefect cloud with my user token
running both of those scripts results in the same flow being overwritten, with a new version created in the cloud database. So the flow uuid shows as the same, but the name changes and the version bumps by 1, and the tasks get replaced.
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Zanie
12/11/2020, 3:47 PM
version_group_idBy setting that manually, you are forcing your flows into the same group so they’ll override
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Michal Mucha
12/11/2020, 3:51 PMThanks, I thought flows with different names would not get bundled together. So how does releasing a new version of a flow occur? Just by registering a new flow with the same name?
Thanks for solving my problem!
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Zanie
12/11/2020, 3:51 PM
Yep that’s correct
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