James, In NiFi 1.x line we introduced the variable registry concept for exactly this purpose. Right now it reads from a properties file but we intend to also grow this to support other more dynamic/central options.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-2208 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-2449 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Variable+Registry Thanks JOe On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:47 AM, James McMahon <jsmcmah...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to allow my workflow administrators to control NiFi attribute > and configuration parameters using an editable configuration text file read > in at start up - similar to nifi.properties. How can I do this? > > An example would be the hostname and port for our AMQP broker, or for > HandleHttpRequest. -Jim