Created NIFI-3417 [1] to address this.

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-3417

Andy LoPresto
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> On Jan 27, 2017, at 7:35 PM, Joe Witt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> That certainly sounds JIRA worthy though.  Templates should not be able to 
> block the destruction of a process group.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Andy LoPresto <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Makoto,
> 
> Templates are tied to process groups. Unfortunately, this means that to 
> delete the group, you will have to delete the templates first. You can do 
> this by using the “hamburger” global menu at the top right of the UI and 
> selecting “Templates”, then deleting the templates which reside in this 
> process group (export them to XML first if you want to save them).
> 
> If you want to move those templates out of the PG, and you are comfortable 
> working in XML, a less-enticing option is to stop the application, uncompress 
> and open the flow.xml.gz file, and move the template entries out of the 
> process group to root or another group, being sure to update any references 
> in the XML. Then save and compress the file, and restart the application.
> 
> I understand this is not an ideal solution. I’m going to file a Jira 
> documenting this and suggest that the dialog allows you to select one of 
> three options:
> 
> 1. Delete process group and all contained templates
> 2. Delete process group and move templates to parent PG (this could cause 
> issues because the components and connections will no longer be defined)
> 3. Cancel the delete operation.
> 
> I’ll also suggest improving the documentation to make this situation clearer.
> 
> <template_delete.png>
> 
> 
> Andy LoPresto
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>> On Jan 27, 2017, at 7:12 PM, Makoto Hashimoto <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to delete an empty group.
>> 
>> <image.png>
>> 
>> However, it fails with the following error.
>> 
>> <image.png>
>> 
>> Is something wrong with my operation and could someone would help to
>> solve this problem ?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> MH

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