Publish your flow definition to the Catalog

Now that you have tested your draft and it works fine, you can go on and publish it to the Catalog as a flow definition so that you can create a Cloudera DataFlow deployment.

  1. On the Flow Designer canvas, click Flow Options > Publish To Catalog > Publish.
  2. Fill in the fields in the Publish A New Flow box.
    • Provide a Flow Name for your flow definition.

      You can only provide a name when you publish your flow for the first time.

    • Optionally provide a Flow Description.

      You can only provide a description when you publish your flow for the first time.

    • Optionally provide Custom Tags.

      You can filter flow definition versions by tags in the Catalog.

    • Optionally provide Version Comments.
  3. Click Publish.
Your draft is published to the Catalog as a flow definition.