Jim McMahon created NIFI-3581:
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Summary: Add an option to automate propagation of template changes
to instances
Key: NIFI-3581
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-3581
Project: Apache NiFi
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Configuration Management, Flow Versioning
Reporter: Jim McMahon
Offer options on templates to allow change detection and propagation to
instances of the template. Would permit change management in one place (the
template level), with option to pick up changes to the source template at the
instance level in groups and workflows.
More specifically: assume we have a complex but common workflow that we save as
template XYZ. That template is used within Process Group ABC, DEF, and XYZ. We
want to control changes to the template in one place only, and optionally
propagate those improvements automatically to each instance of the template in
process groups and workflows.
A similar concept is documented here as a proposed feature, applying more
specifically at the process group level:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Referenceable+Process+Groups
>From Joe. W.:
"The basic gist is that you can create a process group that acts as a
callable function which you can then place in one or many places on
the flow. Ensures you only have one thing/place to maintain for some
critical logic step and it is more efficient on the system from a
threading pov."
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