How can I reuse a flow from within another flow?

Is there a way to reuse flows within other flows? if not, are there any plans to introduce this feature?

Hey @technical-cosmonaut6

That might be worth raising as a new discussion on the postman-flows repo. You’ll be able to get a direct answer from the team.

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I want to revive this question. The other postman-flows discussions is archived. I have the same question.

I have a flow that will be needed for 90% of my flows (as a first step to getting some data for subsequent requests). Is there a way to call a flow from within a flow and use the output? It will help reduce the complexity of flows that require the same logic and make flows easier to maintain if (more likely when :joy:) something changes.

Yeah, see the post-flows project in git is archived.

Curious the roadmap of follow for postman. WIll keep update or project will archived,too.

what happen with this feature?, I check the Discussions in the repository but now is closed :frowning:

The feature is very much still part of Postman :trophy:

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The dedicated project repo was closed and all the issues/feature request can be made via the postman-app-support repo.

Hi!, thanks for the answer Danny, but I referred to the title of this question, how can I reuse a flow from within another flow?, or the ability of start a flow from another flow, is this possible? thanks for your help again :smiley:

Hey @lunar-module-engine4 :wave:

I believe @s-a-g-e might be a great person to bring in here, to give a more detailed response. :pray:

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Hey @lunar-module-engine4 , it is not possible just yet as we are still exploring the best UX around reuse. Probably soon

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Hey @s-a-g-e,
this feature would be really awesome. Are there any new news yet? :slight_smile:
Kind Regards.

Hi @stefman42, the good news is we have been able to make flows reusable in our core implementation. The bad news is that we are still testing it out internally and it not ready for a production release. There are quite a few last mile things we need to handle before we releaes it. We will most likely do a beta release of the feature and I will make sure everyone in this post get to try it out first when we do.

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Hi @s-a-g-e, I’ve recently gotten hooked on using Flows in Postman, but running into some limitations that would easily be remedied if I could reuse flows. Example - I have an evaluate block that generates a random user profile data, and its needed several times in a single flow. Being able to just re-call this evaluate block from different points and get unique data from it would really help.

Is there any update on this feature?

Thanks,
-J

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Dear @s-a-g-e ,
Thanks for the update! It’s great to hear about the progress on making flows reusable. I understand that thorough testing is crucial before a production release. Could you let us know if there’s any news or a tentative release plan for the beta version? We’re eager to try it out and provide feedback.

Looking forward to hearing more!

hey @stefman42 the good news is that you can nest flows with modules - see the documentation here The Flow Module block | Postman Docs. This feature has been out for a couple of months; we should’ve remembered to update this thread.

Let us know if you have any feedback after you’ve tried them out (note if you use the Postman App, you should update to the latest version to get the up-to-date experience and capabilities, including modules).

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thank you very much Rodric.
I tried it directly. Works like a charm. :blush:

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