Find 25.4
Find Administration Guide

# Implement Policies in NiFi

Find can apply policies to documents using Apache NiFi. This section describes how to set up a NiFi dataflow to process requests from Find.

To obtain a list of policies that can be applied, Find sends an `action=ListActions` request to NiFi. It also includes the `Username` and `UserRoles` parameter, with the current Find user and their Find-specific roles.

Find expects the response to contain a list of actions, where each action represents a policy. The following XML is an example response which indicates that the NiFi dataflow implements two policy actions, `action=Policy1` and `action=Policy2`. The display names are the names that will be displayed in Find.

    <actions>
        <action>
            <id>Policy1</id>
            <displayName>My first policy</displayName>
        </action>
        <action>
            <id>Policy2</id>
            <displayName>My second policy</displayName>
        </action>
    </actions>

You must configure a dataflow that provides this response and implements the policies. The following image shows a simple example that you can use as a starting point.

The following image shows the configuration of the HandleAciRequest processor.

A dynamic property named `listactions` (with the value `listactions`) has been added, so that requests for `action=ListActions` are routed to an output relationship called `listactions`. This relationship is connected to a ReplaceText processor. The `listactions` action has also been configured as a synchronous action (see the Synchronous Actions property).

A second dynamic property named `Policy1` (with the value `Policy1`) routes requests for `action=Policy1` to an output relationship called `Policy1`. You can add additional output relationships for other policy actions that you implement.

The following image shows the configuration of the ReplaceText processor.

This processor provides the `ListActions` response. The action response is hard-coded using the Replacement Value property. FlowFiles successfully processed by the ReplaceText processor are routed to the HandleAciResponse processor.

When a Find user applies a policy, Find sends a request to the chosen ACI action. Your NiFi dataflow should process the request and provide a response through the HandleAciResponse processor. Each request that Find sends to NiFi includes the following parameters:

`StateMatchId` | A stored state token that corresponds to the search that the user wants to apply the policy to.
`SecurityInfo` | The security info string needed to view the user's documents.
`Username` | The name of the Find user applying the policy.
`UserRoles` | A comma-separated list of Find-specific roles that the user has from Community (this can include: FindUser, FindBI, and FindAdmin)
`SearchName` | The name of the search, in Find, that the user applies the policy to (either a saved query, saved snapshot, or unsaved query).
`Label` | An additional label that can be supplied by the user when applying a policy in Find.

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