# Ok, subflows - again - confused about looking at their nodes

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But.... and please understand I am seemingly not understanding it.

in the subflow I have to `flow.get("$parent.name")`

Reading your reply accessing global variables is different to flow ones in two ways.  
1 - `glabal` rather than `flow`  
2 - no `$parent`

Correct?

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