Manage Instances
3 min
manage your digital twins instances from digital twins > instances note digital twins requires a scale or growth litmus license change instance view click show instances grid or show instances table to switch between views use the search bar to filter by instance name instance tile actions from the grid view, each instance tile provides the following actions action details \[1] action menu contains disable/enable, edit, and delete options \[2] copy instance topic copies the instance topic string to the clipboard \[3] export json schema downloads the instance schema as a json file \[4] open parameters available when one or more dynamic attributes have topic expressions defined opens a dialog for updating the parameter values for this instance \[5] show topics displays all available topics for the instance, including any attribute level topics if publish attributes is enabled \[6] disable/enable instance pauses or resumes data publishing for the instance without deleting it \[7] edit update the associated model, instance name, interval, and flatten hierarchy setting \[8] delete removes the instance permanently note enable flatten hierarchy to convert nested json objects to single level, dot notation key value pairs for example, dynamic attribute temperature value 30 use this when sending instance payloads to tabular databases such as sql or influxdb