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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (MINIFI-107) Support for Process Groups
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ASF GitHub Bot commented on MINIFI-107:
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Github user JPercivall commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi-minifi/pull/50#discussion_r86903300
  
    --- Diff: minifi-docs/src/main/markdown/System_Admin_Guide.md ---
    @@ -391,6 +391,39 @@ Within the Processor Configuration section, there is the `Properties` subsection
             State File: ./conf/state/tail-file
             Initial Start Position: Beginning of File
     
    +## Process Groups
    +
    +Process groups can be nested from the top level.  They can contain other process groups as well and can be used to logically group related operations.
    +
    +*Property*                          | *Description*
    +----------------------------------- | -------------
    +name                                | The name of what this process group will do.
    +id                                  | The id of this process group.  This needs to be set to a unique filesystem-friendly value (regex: [A-Za-z0-9_-]+)
    +Processors                          | The processors contained in this Process Group. (Defined above)
    +Remote Processing Groups            | The remote processing groups contained in this Process Group. (Defined below)
    +Connections                         | The connections contained in this Process Group. (Defined below)
    +Input Ports                         | The input ports contained in this Process Group. (Defined below)
    +Output Ports                        | The output ports contained in this Process Group. (Defined below)
    +Process Groups                      | The child Process Groups contained in this Process Group.
    +
    +## Input Ports
    --- End diff --
    
    Similar to what we had with PGs, during validation we should check if the root PG has input/output ports (and fail if so)


> Support for Process Groups
> --------------------------
>
>                 Key: MINIFI-107
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MINIFI-107
>             Project: Apache NiFi MiNiFi
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Bryan Rosander
>            Assignee: Bryan Rosander
>
> Process groups are a good way to simplify the design part of development in NiFi.  MiNiFi Java currently doesn't support them but should in order to make designing templates compatible with MiNiFi a better experience.


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