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Hi! What is the proper way of scheduling a set of flows to run at for example midnight, but only one flow running at a time. So in a sequence (where order does not matter). I tried by just scheduling all the flows at the same time, one flow runs and the rest fails. I am running with Docker and the error message does not seem to be working properly:

Hey Andreas!! Here is a discourse article that answers you scheduling question: <https://discourse.prefect.io/t/can-a-single-prefect-agent-execute-multiple-flow-runs-scheduled-to-run-at-the-same-time/345>

That discourse article is for 1.0 but I see you are running 2.0. How agents and work-queues handle flow runs can be found here: <https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/work-queues/?h=scheduling#work-queue-overview>

This discourse post could also be helpful: <https://discourse.prefect.io/t/agents-and-work-queues-faq/1468>