Naz,

Why not just leave all the processes running?  If the data only
arrives periodically that is ok, right?

Thanks
Joe

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Irizarry Jr., Nazario <[email protected]> wrote:
> On a project that I am on we have been looking at using NiFi for 
> orchestrations that are invoked infrequently.  For example, once a month a 
> new data input product becomes available and then one wants to run it through 
> a set of processing steps that can be nicely implemented using NiFi 
> processors.  However, using the interval or cron scheduling for this purpose 
> begins to get cumbersome after a while with the need to start and manually 
> stop these occasional flows.
>
> It would be fairly easy to add an additional scheduling option - “Run Once” 
> for this use case.  The behavior would be that when a processor is set to run 
> once it automatically stops after it has successfully processed one input.
>
> What do people think?  We are willing to implement this small enhancement.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Naz Irizarry
> MITRE Corp.
> 617-893-0074
>
>
>

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