Product Features
Flows Manager
Configuration Nodes
2min
- When you select Configuration Nodes from the menu, the Config tab opens beneath the canvas to display used and unused nodes.
- When you delete a node from a flow, it may not be deleted from the back end.
- Server-based nodes that require network / connectivity settings, such as MQTT nodes, are found here if they have been deleted from a flow.
- You may want to remove these types of unused nodes from the back-end because they may continue to try connecting to a port and degrade performance.
- Not all deleted nodes appear in the Config tab.
- When you save a flow or the entire workspace, a pop-up message notifies you if there are unused nodes.
You can remove unused nodes from a Flows View.
Server-based nodes that require network / connectivity settings, such as MQTT nodes, are found here if they have been deleted from a flow.
To identify and remove unused nodes:
- From the Navigation panel, select Flows Manager. The Overview pane appears.
Click the Go To Flow Definition icon next to a selected flow. The selected flow view opens in a separate browser tab.
Go To Flow Definition iconFrom the Flow view, click the Menu icon and select Configuration nodes. The config tab appears in the sidebar.
Configuration nodes menu option- Expand the message window beneath the flow.
Click the Config icon. The Config tab appears in the sidebar palette.
Flow Definition Config Tab- Click unused. The unused nodes appear for the selected flow. You can also view the unused nodes for all flows. Identify unused nodes by the dotted-line border and a 0 for the number of instances.
- Remove unused nodes from the canvas.