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Viewing a flow in NiFi

You can go to the NiFi cluster where your flow is deployed and view or edit the data flow.

When you access the NiFi cluster, the ability to view or edit the flow is based on your Cloudera Data Flow authorizations. The DFFlowUser role has read-only privileges. The DFFlowAdmin role has full privileges.

You must have deployed a data flow in Cloudera Data Flow.
  1. Open Cloudera Data Flow by clicking the Data Flow tile in the Cloudera sidebar.
  2. Click Deployments on the left navigation pane.
    The Deployments page is displayed.
  3. Select the flow you want to view in NiFi.
    • Select the deployment hosting your flow and then select the flow in the Flow & Deployments pane. Click Flow Actions > Manage Flow > View in NiFi
    • Select the Flows tab, then search for the flow you want to view in NiFi. Select the flow you want to view and click [More] > Manage Flow > View in NiFi.

    The Apache NiFi UI opens, displaying the flow process group.

  4. View your data flow or edit it based on your NiFi privileges.

    If you edit the flow in NiFi and want the changes to exist in a new deployment, perform the following steps:

    1. Download the flow as a flow definition.
      For more information, see Downloading a flow definition from NiFi.
    2. Import the flow definition (as a new flow definition or as a new version of an existing flow definition).
      For more information, see Importing a flow definition to Cloudera Data Flow.
    3. Deploy the flow definition.
      For more information, see Deploy a flow.