[NIFI-3341] In the Add Processor dialog, add a link to the documentation when a processor is highlighted

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Core UI
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrew M. Lim
• Created: 13/Jan/17 15:56
• Updated: 13/Jan/17 15:59

Description

The Add processor dialog only shows a processor's general description when it is selected/highlighted from the list of processors. If a user wants more information about that processor, s/he has to either add the processor to the canvas and then select "Usage" from the right-click context menu or open up the Help documentation and then find that processor's doc.

To make this simpler, we should add a link to that processor's documentation to the Add Processor dialog. This minimal addition will not take up much window real estate, but be very useful to NiFi users, especially those new to NiFi.