https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Setting-Stateful-Variables-Initial-Value-in-UpdateAttributes/m-p/208798#M170755 <P>I would like to use the the local State Management to keep track of the maximum value of a FlowFile attribute ever seen (the last data I fetched from an HTTP endpoint). It seems the UpdateAttributes "Store State" feature could be useful in keeping track of the maximum date I have processed thus far.</P><P>However, I can't even get the example in the UpdateAttributes documentation to work:</P><UL><LI>Dynamic Property<UL><LI>key : theCount</LI><LI>value : ${getStateValue("theCount"):plus(1)}</LI></UL></LI></UL><P>I've set "Store State" to "Store state locally" but don't know how to set "Stateful Variables Initial Value".</P><P>When running the attribute "theCount" shows up as empty.</P><P>I tried changing the "value" to: ${getStateValue("theCount"):toNumber():plus(1)}</P><P>But that doesn't help. How is one supposed to use "Stateful Variables Initial Value"?</P> Wed, 14 Jun 2017 11:34:15 GMT ericw 2017-06-14T11:34:15Z