Find parent workflows for a sub workflow

Hi everyone,

is there a way to check, which workflows use a specific sub workflow? I got some sub workflows performing tasks required by other workflows. But I did not find a way to show the “parent workflows” from the sub workflow.

Is there such a function anywhere or do I have to use some kind of note within the sub workflow to list the parent flows?

Greg

There’s currently no built-in feature in n8n that lets you directly view or trace which workflows are calling a specific sub‑workflow
However, there’s a helpful community-made solution titled “n8n Subworkflow Dependency Graph & Auto-Tagging”.

This is not native functionality, but it’s a practical workaround you can import and adapt to your environment.

Great! Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.