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Wingmore

12/15/2022, 4:26 AM
Hey all, I have a quick qs that can hopefully be easily answered - my flow/task descriptions don't seem to show up in the Orion UI. Is this a bug or am I missing something? PS let me know if this is not the right place to ask!
This is the UI
from prefect import flow, task
@flow(name="Hello Flow", 
description = "Hello flow")
def hello_world(name="world"):
    """Some description"""
    ...
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Jeff Hale

12/15/2022, 2:12 PM
Hi @Wingmore. Have your run the flow? After running it should show up.
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Wingmore

12/15/2022, 11:15 PM
Hi @Jeff Hale I have definitely run it (multiple times too) and still nothing..
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Jeff Hale

12/16/2022, 12:05 AM
What if you click on flow runs instead of deployments? Just looking at the screenshot - looks like you might be looking in the wrong menu.
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Wingmore

12/16/2022, 3:57 AM
No luck 😞 Also this was not run from a deployment. This was run from the python file...
Is there any other way to change the description section?
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Jeff Hale

12/16/2022, 1:43 PM
Cool. I think things are working as expected, but there’s perhaps just a bit of confusion. My understanding of what’s going on: • You are running these like this:
python myflow.py
• You should see the flow runs show up on the flow run page - which you showed above • You should not see anything on the deployments page as you haven’t build and applied a deployment - see the docs here. • If you click on astute-hoatzin you should see information about that specific flow run • To see about making a description for your flow run - see this section of the docs
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Wingmore

12/23/2022, 1:15 AM
Hi, me again, I am 90% sure that the description is not actually being shown on the UI.. I've followed the instructions and still nothing shows up in the flows page (I'm still looking at the top right section from my screenshots). It still says None no matter what I do. The good news is I can send a description to the deployments now but it's the flows which arent showing anything.
I THINK it's the same problem as this thread https://prefect-community.slack.com/archives/C0192RWGJQH/p1669842096532959... but I cant find any Github issue on line so yeah...
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Jeff Hale

12/23/2022, 1:24 AM
Ok. Would be great if you wanted to try with 2.7.4 and submit an issue if the problem still exists.