Hello Knime forum,
System setup
Knime 5.4.4
Windows 11
What do I want to do?
I have several self created components saved locally. If I want to change these components in any way I get the error message inside the component “No example input data stored with component”. That means, I cannot execute the component, nor can I change most of the nodes configurations, as no data is available.
How do I add “example input data” to that component in order to see what’s happening inside and to change the configuration of nodes, please?
Steps to reproduce
- Create a component
- Right click the component and choose “Share”
- Save it locally
- On the Knime navigation panel on the very left of the Screen, go to “Explorer” and look for the just created component
- Open the component with a double click
- The “Component Input” node has a warning message saying “No example input data stored with componentNo example input data stored with component”.
The only way to change the configuration I found so far, is
- to copy all nodes from the component
- paste them into a workflow where the component shall be used
- link the input nodes with the main workflow
- => now I can change the configuration of the nodes. As soon as this is done
- Copy all or just the changed nodes back into the component
- Save the component
This workaround is obviously cumbersome and error prone.
So again 
How do I add “example input data” to that component in order to see what’s happening inside and to change the configuration of nodes, please?
Thanks a lot,
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