[jira] [Created] (NIFI-339) When adding a template to the graph things can get very messy

["Joseph Witt (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Joseph Witt created NIFI-339:
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             Summary: When adding a template to the graph things can get very messy
                 Key: NIFI-339
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-339
             Project: Apache NiFi
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Core UI
            Reporter: Joseph Witt


When adding large/complex templates to the graph the system will let you unintentionally drop a bunch of stuff on the graph.

A great analogy provided for this was that this is like unpacking a tar bundle.  Unless you look into the bundle first you don't know whether it will just dump all contents into the current folder or whether it will put it all in a subfolder.

In nifi the user cannot see the template ahead of time.  That is likely something which should be fixed.  Further, when they place something on the graph if there will be overlap with anything (visually) perhaps we can warn then ahead of time to verify their intent - or simply say it isn't possible to do (because most of the time it would be really annoying).





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