hi! is there a way to make a parameter default to the current datetime?

I believe

prefect.context.today

will give you the current date inside any task. If you want to make use it as a default parameter, couldn't you just use

datetime.today()

as the default?

@alex i tried this but it was maintaining the same date as when i registered the flow. i will look into today. thank you

If you want the actual datetime, I think

prefect.context.date

will work https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/utilities/context.html

It has been a while, but I had the same result as @Hannah Amundson - once the flow was registered, the Parameter defaults were baked-in, which makes sense since (as far as I know) that code only runs once. If you really wanted the date to be a Parameter (and have it default to the current time but still be overrideable) I think you'd need a Task that accepted a Parameter and have it return the current date if that Parameter was

null

or something similar.

ok thank you @Skip Breidbach and @alex