Hi Prefect, I have a question with regards to automation. If we have an automation kick-off another deployment to run, how do we get the id of the original deployment that entered the specified state ? Is that a parameter we can get somewhere ? or using the API ? Would appreciate your inputs there Tx !

Hi Florian, You have options to return

flow_run

,

flow

,

deployment

, and

work_queue

using Jinja with automation notifications: https://docs.prefect.io/ui/automations/?h=automation#templating-notifications-with-jinja

Hi @Christopher Boyd, in that case I’m not interested in notifications, my automation triggers another deployment. Basically I have a flow -> triggers an automation -> triggers another flow In the trigerred flow, how can I get the originator for the automation ?

Hi Florian - I understand. The automation creates another flow_run which then immediately executes. To get the originator for the flow_run , you would need a notification for what triggered the new one - the flow_run is not contextually aware of how it was created otherwise

Tx @Christopher Boyd, that’s maybe something to add. The same way we configure the template for the notification, we could configure the payload passed to the job when it’s not a notification

That’s an interesting thought, I’ll raise that feedback