Manage Instances

3 min

after you create instances, you manage them in 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 change how you view your instances use the search bar to search by instance name manage individual instances from the show devices grid view, you can use instance tiles to access management options refer to the image and callouts below action details \[1] action menu contains the following options disable/enable edit delete \[2] copy instance topic copies the instance topic \[3] open parameters displays when one or more dynamic attributes has defined topic expressions opens a dialog for updating parameter values \[4] show topics displays available topics for the instance \[5] disable/enable instance d isables or enables the instance \[6] edit allows you to update the associated model, instance name, interval, and enable or disable flattening hierarchies \[7] delete allows you to delete the instance note enable flatten hierarchy to convert nested json objects to single level objects that contain the objects full path, for example dynamic attribute temperature value 30 consider flattening hierarchies when sending json objects to tabular databases, such as sql and influxdb