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Hi! How can I trigger another flow run from an existing deployment from a flow?
Say I want to generate a flow run from Flow B as soon as Flow A finishes, but they are different and independent flows and deployments.
Can I do it in Python, or an API call?

Hey Stefan! Here's one way: <https://docs.prefect.io/api-ref/prefect/deployments/#prefect.deployments.run_deployment>

This can be called from one flow to start and monitor a flow run of a different deployment

Cheers, thanks! But I'm assuming that would mean the first flow does not finish until the last one dos?

You can set a timeout -- if the timeout is 0 the function will return immediately

So you could have Flow Run A start Flow Run B and continue without waiting for Flow Run B to finish

Awesome.

So I import run_deployment from prefect.deployments and run it as a function? Looks good!