Dataflow not editable - Solved
- Matthias Schmitz
- May 19
- 1 min read
Updated: May 20
Dataflows can be nice to transfer data from one system to the other but in the same time also very tricky.
I want to cover two topics today:
Edit dataflows in solutions
Edit dataflows of other people
Edit dataflows in solutions
Have you ever tried editing a dataflow in a solution? If yes, you know what you mean. It will not work...
I don't know why but you can only edit a dataflow in the Dataflows tab:
Bug or feature?
Speaking about bugs: Normally I work in English only. Sometimes some elements are in German. I don't know why..
Edit dataflows of other people
Another really interesting thing is that you cannot edit dataflows of other people. You need to be the owner of a dataflow.
You can change the owner of the dataflow by clicking on All Dataflows ("Alle Dataflows"in my screen). Then you search for the previous owner and click on the three dots next to the dataflow you want to change the owner of.
However, and this is a big however, if the user who created the dataflow left the organization and the account got deleted, you cannot change the owner of the dataflows anymore because you cannot search for the account any longer.
We had this situation because an external built some dataflows and then left the project which led to his account deletion. We solved this by exporting and importing the dataflows again which created duplicates with a new owner.
We are still not sure if this was the right way but it solved our problem .
Can you elaborate more on how to export and import data flows?
I am the admin, and one of the users developed data flows and left the organization. Now, as the admin, I need to transfer the ownership, but I cannot. So, I went to the default solution, went to the data flow section, and I can see that data flows exist, but there is no edit option.