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Find the Flow that Called a Helper Flow

If you have a folder with many helper flows, finding the helper flow immediate calling flow might be challenging.

If the helper flow has at least one execution, you can find the flow that called it. Open any helper execution. The first Helper Flow card has the Caller field. You will see the root_wf_id inside the Caller field:

Copy and root_wf_id and insert it into the following URL and open it. This URL will open the immediate calling flow.

https://{okta-org}.workflows.oktapreview.com/app/flows/{root_wf_id}

Or the URL for Production:

https://{okta-org}.workflows.okta.com/app/flows/{root_wf_id}

Using root_wf_id works for a one-level deep helper flow. Use Event metadata for Execution Log Streaming for a more robust way to find the immediate calling flow.

Use a bookmarklet

Gabriel Sroka from the Mac Admins Slack Workflows community created a bookmarklet that allows you to add to your browser and open the immediate calling flow with a click.

Create a bookmarklet and set the following for the bookmarklet URL:

javascript:open('/app/flows/' + document.body.innerHTML.match(/"root_wf_id":"(.*?)"/)[1])

Select an execution and click the bookmarklet to open the calling flow.

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