I would factor in any plans for a local version history, it may add new requirements to this status icon. Just saying there's more to that logic potentially.
Andrew On Sun, Mar 25, 2018, 10:17 PM Peter Wicks (pwicks) <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt, > > If you really want to enable awareness of this feature, enable the > "Version" menu option even if no NiFi Registry has been enabled, and when > the user clicks, "Start version control" take them to the help section for > starting up a version control server and registering it. > > The existing "Up to date" and "Stale" status icons that show in the upper > left corner are great. They only show up if the Process Group is versioned, > and they aren't distracting you from the status of your flow in general; > simple single icon. But the five new status icons at the bottom, even if I > am actively using NiFi Registry, feel very busy and distracting. > > I am excited about NiFi Registry. I am just starting to use it and I think > it's going to solve a lot of issues. > > Thanks, > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Gilman [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2018 04:18 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EXT] Re: NiFi Versioned Process Group Status Icons > > Peter, > > The status icon for a specific Process Group is hidden until that group is > versioned. That icon is positioned next to the group name. > > For the icons in the status bar and in the bottom of the Process Group, we > were ultimately just trying to remain consistent. These reflect the counts > of the encapsulated versioned Process Groups and does not include itself. > Like we have with the status icons for the encapsulated Processors and > Ports. Even if this Process Group is not configured to have any > encapsulated components, we still render the counts as zero. > > Additionally, the presence of the icons helps drive awareness of the > feature. > > Rob or Drew may have some additional insight to add. Hope this helps > > Matt > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:10 AM, Peter Wicks (pwicks) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Why does NiFi show status icons for Versioned Process Group's on > > servers that are not configured to connect to a NiFi Registry? > > > > Thanks, > > Peter > > >
