Hi is there a way to tell if my flow is running because it was triggered on a schedule as opposed to not? I tried this check;

try:
            scheduled_start_time: DateTime = prefect.context.scheduled_start_time
        except AttributeError:
            raise Exception("No start/end time params and no schedule")

There is something like

auto_scheduled

in the context

Ahh ok will take a look - docs here -> https://docs.prefect.io/api/latest/utilities/context.html#context-2 dont mention it

Let me check

Its weird but this may be what I want... have a param_default on the clock;

clock = clocks.IntervalClock(
    timedelta(minutes=5), parameter_defaults={"is_scheduled_param": True}
)

set the param to false by default

is_scheduled_param = Parameter(name="is_scheduled_param", default=False)
    start_time_param = Parameter(name="start_time_param", default=None)
    end_time_param = Parameter(name="end_time_param", default=None)

    start_time, end_time = get_ingestion_period(
        start_time_param, end_time_param, is_scheduled_param
    )

pass that into a function that needs to know if its running on a schedule...messy - should really be a flag but cannot find it 😞

Yeah that looks like it would work. Clock parameter would take precedent over Parameter default

It does indeed work

So

auto_scheduled

is in the GraphQL backend. Not in context. So you can query for it with something like:

query = """ 
query($id: uuid!) {
  flow_run(where: {id: {_eq: $id} }) {
    id
    auto_scheduled
  }
}
"""
client.graphql(query=query, variables=dict(id=prefect.context["flow_run_id"]))