You cannot prevent the UUIDs from changing, it is generally good practice to enforce unique names and use those as your lookup values.
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, 10:10 Vibhath Ileperuma, <vibhatharunapr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently developing an external script to work with a NIFI flow using > NIFI rest api. To access processors/controllers etc. it is required to know > the UUID. > But I notice that it is possible for UUIDs to be changed if the NIFI flow > is imported to another NIFI instance through a template. > Is there a way to define the UUIDs which are not changing? Or is it > possible to access a processor using the name or a custom defined id ? > > Thanks & Regards > > *Vibhath Ileperuma* > > > >