You have to do this in two subsequent UpdateAttribute instances because the 
order of attribute definition (within an instance) is not deterministic. We 
have gotten a lot of questions about this, so perhaps it makes sense to 
investigate as a new feature. However, if that decision is made, I think 
substantial changes to the interface would need to be made to allow for manual 
reordering of property descriptors, which is not currently supported, and the 
transmission of that data via the DTOs in the API would need to be changed as 
well, because JSON keys are not ordered. 

Andy LoPresto
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> On May 16, 2019, at 2:08 PM, Boris Tyukin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> is it possible to reuse just defined attribute in another attribute in the 
> same instance of UpdateAttribute processor or I really have to use two 
> separate UpdateAttribute processors?
> 
> For example, I define name=boris and then I want to add another attribute 
> greetings=Hi ${name}
> 
> If I do it in NiFi 1.9, greetings attribute is set to "Hi "

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