Uwe, The User Guide was updated in version 1.3.0 to better describe how controller settings are scoped.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-3911 -Drew > On Oct 12, 2017, at 2:50 PM, Matt Gilman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Uwe, > > Services defined in the Controller Settings are available to Reporting Tasks > and other services defined there. Services defined within a Process Group are > available to descendent components. To create a service that is available to > all components in the flow, define it in the root Process Group. > > https://community.hortonworks.com/content/kbentry/90259/understanding-controller-service-availability-in-a.html > > Matt > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Uwe Geercken <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Nifi for quite a while, but I have never understood how the > inheritance of the controller settings works. > > If I have a blank flow and add controller settings - e.g. a DHCPConnection > Pool - and then add a process group, then the controller settings are not > visible. Why is that? I thought the controller settings for the parent flow > are visible for all descendants? > > rgds, > > Uwe > > >
