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Hi all, quick question on the `prefect.deployments.run_deployment()`  function:

If I deploy a flow without specifying a deployment name, how can I use `run_deployment()`  to trigger a flow run? Would it just be `run_deployment(name='flow_name')` ?

related docs: <https://docs.prefect.io/concepts/deployments/#create-a-flow-run-in-a-python-script>

What are you looking to do?
I’m not sure I understand the problem here - you want to run a deployment, without a deployment name?

Ah my apologies, I think my issue lies within an internal piece of code that we use to `deploy()` flows, I see that the `Deployment.name` field is required