# How to get the flowId in the flow?

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**Created:** [11 May 2020 01:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-the-flowid-in-the-flow/26453 "2020-05-11T01:09:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@Jack](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Jack)\
**Post date:** [11 May 2020 01:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-the-flowid-in-the-flow/26453/1 "2020-05-11T01:09:46Z")

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I want to get flowId in my flow, which are used as key to store process error information into the database. Is there any way to do it, such as flow.get("flowId") or?

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [11 May 2020 08:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-the-flowid-in-the-flow/26453/2 "2020-05-11T08:45:14Z")

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You could stick a change node near the start of every flow that would put the name of the flow in a msg variable

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**Author:** ![Jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@Jack](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Jack)\
**Post date:** [11 May 2020 10:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-the-flowid-in-the-flow/26453/3 "2020-05-11T10:52:02Z")

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I hope to get this id in my flow's node.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/5/7/5772ea506bb745e2ae2b11dea63d8dc2260bf706.png)

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [11 May 2020 10:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-the-flowid-in-the-flow/26453/4 "2020-05-11T10:56:52Z")

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Hi @Jack, the flow id isn't exposed to the nodes. As @zenofmud suggests, you would need to hard code an identifier on each flow - which could be written to flow context by an Inject node on start up.

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**Author:** ![Jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@Jack](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Jack)\
**Post date:** [11 May 2020 10:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-the-flowid-in-the-flow/26453/5 "2020-05-11T10:58:02Z")

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thank you

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**Author:** ![Jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@Jack](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Jack)\
**Post date:** [11 May 2020 10:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-the-flowid-in-the-flow/26453/6 "2020-05-11T10:58:47Z")

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thank you.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [10 July 2020 11:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-get-the-flowid-in-the-flow/26453/7 "2020-07-10T11:12:47Z")

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