hi, what’s the best way to express a job which has to be explicitly started and stopped at specific times, but with other downstream jobs which are supposed to start only once that job has stopped? schedules seem to apply to flows, not tasks but if i separate the starting/stopping into separate flows then i lose the ability to express dependencies

I recommend using Flow-to-Flow dependencies as described in this example: https://docs.prefect.io/core/idioms/flow-to-flow.html

thanks chris, let me try that

Hi Sark, sorry for missing this - another option would be to add a task at the beginning of your scheduled flows that polls the API to wait for the other relevant jobs to complete

hmm yeah that would work, and would be the equivalent of this in airflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38022323/how-to-set-dependencies-between-dags-in-airflow i guess