Hi everyone I ve just started to learn and use Prefect I was

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Hi everyone I ve just started to learn and use Prefect I was looking for best practices to share blocks between different workspace in Prefect cloud

Jeff Hale · Answer

Hi Alireza Welcome tada Blocks are specific to a workspace so the easiest way to duplicate them across workspaces is to them in code and then run that code when connected to one workspace and then run that code when connected to another workspace If the block is found in a collection or is of a custom type you will need to in each workspace prior to instantiation

Alireza · Answer

Thanks Jeff Everything work well with normal blocks but in case of collections still I have this problem

Alireza · Answer

Thanks Jeff Everything work well with normal blocks but in case of collections still I have this problem 1 registering collections by `prefect block register m prefect aws credentials` 2 registering or saving the block using

Alireza · Answer

Thanks Jeff Everything work well with normal blocks but in case of collections still I have problem 1 registering collections by `prefect block register m prefect aws credentials` 2 registering or saving the block using ```from prefect aws credentials import AwsCredentials credentials = AwsCredentials aws access key id= acccess key id aws secret access key= secret access key credentials save name= first aws creds overwrite=True ``` would result in this error ``` raise HTTPStatusError message request=request response=self httpx HTTPStatusError Client error 422 Unprocessable Entity for url <https api prefect cloud api accounts >```

Jeff Hale · Answer

Hi Alireza You might want to create the block via the UI as shown below The docstring and type hints don t show all the relevant fields for creating the block but that s something we can look to add cc < Andrew Huang>

Andrew Huang · Answer

`credentials save name= first aws creds overwrite=True ` runs into an error because block names cannot have underscores only hyphens I encountered that before as well and we re working on a better exception msg

Alireza · Answer

Aha That is why sometimes it works smile

Andrew Huang · Answer

created an issue here for tracking <https github com PrefectHQ prefect issues 8036>

Andrew Huang · Answer

It should be fixed in the next release Thanks for sharing your example <https github com PrefectHQ prefect pull 8038>

Alireza · Answer

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