# Seeing where flows are used

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/seeing-where-flows-are-used/76134>\
**Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\
**Created:** [February 7, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/seeing-where-flows-are-used/76134 "2023-02-07T14:23:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Stefan\_Gorissen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/stefan_gorissen/32/7101_2.png) [@Stefan\_Gorissen](https://community.homey.app/u/Stefan_Gorissen)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/seeing-where-flows-are-used/76134/1 "2023-02-07T14:23:45Z")

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It would be a handy feature it was possible to see where flows are used by other flows.  
Kind of the same way you can see in what flows a device is used.  
Especially now with the Advanced Flows it is very easy to use sub-flows and to steer them with start tags.

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**Author:** ![OH2TH](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/oh2th/32/111414_2.png) [@OH2TH](https://community.homey.app/u/OH2TH)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/seeing-where-flows-are-used/76134/2 "2023-02-07T17:17:08Z")

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Maybe something for the Flow Checker app, @martijnpoppen ?

Flow uses::used by flow mapping. Though not sure if the homey-api has this information readily available.

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**Author:** ![FKey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/fkey/32/14793_2.png) [@FKey](https://community.homey.app/u/FKey)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/seeing-where-flows-are-used/76134/3 "2023-02-07T19:12:43Z")

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That is indeed missing.  
The way I solved it:  
I created a virtual device (pushbutton) for every flow I want to be able to trace.  
Instead of when this flow is started its now started by a virtual device

Or the more administrative way. Add a [comment](https://community.homey.app/t/app-flowcomments-simple-cards-to-add-comments-to-flows-v1-3/32251) card an add in the comment which flows are starting that flow…

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**Author:** ![martijnpoppen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijnpoppen/32/84849_2.png) [@martijnpoppen](https://community.homey.app/u/martijnpoppen)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 10:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/seeing-where-flows-are-used/76134/4 "2023-02-07T22:33:21Z")

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@OH2TH yes i checked it for flow checker, did check it once but its quite hard to make that mapping between flows.

Might be easier to create a new app for that instead of putting it in flowchecker. As flowchecker is quite memory heavy

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**Author:** ![OH2TH](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/oh2th/32/111414_2.png) [@OH2TH](https://community.homey.app/u/OH2TH)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/seeing-where-flows-are-used/76134/5 "2023-02-12T18:07:31Z")

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Some kind of a flow map would be cool, where one could see the relations between each flow.

But before that, probably someway to list each flow with the dependencies for:

- depends on
- used by

No idea if there is anyway to dig that out with homey-api. But would be very useful when there is a larger number of advanced flows.

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**Author:** ![martijnpoppen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijnpoppen/32/84849_2.png) [@martijnpoppen](https://community.homey.app/u/martijnpoppen)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/seeing-where-flows-are-used/76134/6 "2023-02-12T19:34:41Z")

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Yeah should be possible. Already have a small PoC when i tried it for flowchecker