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Nifi: How to revoke the import and export Templates operations for the users.

rajivswe_2k7 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:06:45 GMT

Hi Team,

We are using NIfi 1.26 in the Dev/Prod and we would like to get rid of using the Nifi template usage instead we are intend to use Flow definitions. However the users are still using the import and export method. Is there a way to disable the operations of import and export templates for all the users.

Re: Nifi: How to revoke the import and export Templates operations for the users.

MattWho — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:59:49 GMT

@rajivswe_2k7

Any user that has "modify the component" access granted to them on a process group will be able to upload a template via that process group. Users with that same authorization will also be able to use "add template" to add the uploaded template to the NiFi canvas within the authorized process group. There is no method built into Apache NiFi 1.x to disable templates or block user authorized as described above from being able to upload or add templates to canvas.

It may make sense in some situations to upload a template to NiFi and then add it to the canvas so that it can be downloaded in the new flow definition format (Some template will require modification before they can be downloaded as a flow definition).

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Thank you,
Matt

Re: Nifi: How to revoke the import and export Templates operations for the users.

rajivswe_2k7 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:20:23 GMT

Thank you @mat .