Edit Saved Metanode (Personal Productive Extension, Knime 3.4)

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Hi everybody,

I've installed Knime 3.4 and I'm trying to use the metanode linking functionality.

What I did is to save a metanode as template and creating an absolute link. I used the linked metanode in some parts of the workflow but when I tried to edit the metanode (and update the others linked metanode) I found that I  coudn't edit any of the metanode.

Even looking in the metanode saved in the local repository I coudn't find any option to edit the metanodes.

Is there any way to edit a saved metanode?

Thank you very much

 

 

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Sorry no advice for you, but I am having the same problem.  Could someone from KNIME send a link out with the full documentation of how to use all the features of the Personal Productive Extension.  I am not even 100% sure of what each of the options mean when creating a metanode template:

1) Create absolute link

2) Create mountpoint-relaltive link

3) Create workflow-relative link

4) Don't link metanode with save template.

So again full documentation of the features would be a very helpful.

 

 

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Thanks Macca. I agree  with you some documentation would be very helpful.

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Thanks Macca. I agree  with you some documentation would be very helpful.

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Hi Both, 

this is correct. You need to do the disconnect, than edit and afterwards overwrite the template.

This is the same on the server.

Best, Iris 

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An update.

The only way I found to edit a saved metanode template is to

  • copy the metanode on a workflow
  • disconnect the link
  • edit the metanode
  • save it again in the same position and with the same name

The you can update the linked metanode.

Anyone has found a more direct way to modify a template metanode?

In this post, it looks like that -in knime server - you don't need to disconnect the link to edit the changes.