feature: Visually organize complex flows s.t. less overlaps happen or overlaps are less confusing
wasnertobias opened this issue · comments
When there are a lot of branches and parallelism in a complex flow, it is tough to follow the lines of a branch, as any other elements overlap them. In addition, overlapping lines (crossings) make it hard to follow in a quick look.
Generally, I would love to see it less dense but more structured.
Another idea: If there is a for loop or branch (if), then instead of indenting it as code, it could be visually indented as well, e.g., through shadows (higher z-axis)
One (not most extreme) example:
Some "minimum example":
summary: ""
value:
modules:
- id: a
value:
type: branchall
branches:
- modules:
- id: d
value:
type: identity
flow: false
- id: e
value:
type: whileloopflow
modules:
- id: f
value:
type: identity
flow: false
skip_failures: false
skip_failure: false
- summary: ""
expr: "false"
modules:
- id: b
value:
type: forloopflow
modules:
- id: c
value:
type: identity
flow: false
iterator:
type: javascript
expr: ""
skip_failures: true
parallel: false
skip_failure: false
- summary: ""
expr: "false"
modules:
- id: g
value:
type: forloopflow
modules:
- id: i
value:
type: identity
flow: false
iterator:
type: javascript
expr: ""
skip_failures: true
parallel: false
skip_failure: false
- summary: ""
expr: "false"
modules: []
skip_failure: false
parallel: false
summary: ""
- id: h
value:
type: branchone
branches:
- summary: The default braunch looks like it goes to step n
expr: "false"
modules: []
- summary: ""
expr: "false"
modules: []
- summary: ""
expr: "false"
modules:
- id: j
value:
type: forloopflow
modules:
- id: l
value:
type: identity
flow: false
iterator:
type: javascript
expr: ""
skip_failures: true
parallel: false
- id: m
value:
type: branchall
branches:
- summary: ""
expr: "false"
modules:
- id: n
value:
type: identity
flow: false
skip_failure: false
- summary: ""
expr: "false"
modules: []
skip_failure: false
parallel: false
summary: ""
- id: k
value:
type: identity
flow: false
- summary: ""
expr: "false"
modules: []
- summary: ""
expr: "false"
modules: []
- summary: ""
expr: "false"
modules: []
default: []
summary: ""
schema:
$schema: https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema
properties: {}
required: []
type: object
Hi we did some improvements recently, and we will on work on two special cases we have identified soon.
