@maryem    Any action you can do through the NiFi UI, you can also do via interacting directly with the NiFi rest-api. This will not animate the action of actually dragging and dropping a processor on the canvas, but you can make a rest-api call that would add new processor of type ABC at coordinates x,y on the canvas.   NiFi's rest-api documentation can be found here: https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/rest-api/index.html Some users find it easier to learn the rest-api call through examples.  If you open the developer tools in your browser, you can perform the action via the UI and see the rest-api call that was made.  Most browser developer tools even let you save the rest-api call as a curl command that you could then execute yourself via command line. Matt ... View more