flow context in subflows

[giang nam]

Hi there,

Currently it seems subflows cannot access the main flow's context such as flow.get('some var') right?

Is this intended?

Thanks

[Julian Knight]

Context variables are local to a specific node instance.

However, you can use global variables and these are available everywhere including in subflows.

[Nicholas O'Leary]

Whilst what you say is correct Julian, the question is about the Flow context.

The flow context a node in a subflow has access to is the subflow's flow context, not the flow context of the flow the subflow instance node is on. That is intentional.

Nick

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[Julian Knight]

Drat, forgot about the additional context. 

[James Vodanovich]

A bit late but you can use a function in front of the sub flow on the flows tab to inject a value(s) from the flow's context

msg.payload["my_flow_var"] = flow.get("my_flow_var")
return msg;