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:matt.c.gil...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2018 04:18 To: dev@nifi.apache.org 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) <pwi...@micron.com> 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 >
