Hey, I like the idea but we need to have a clear differentiator compared to the situation where backpressure is enabled (and connection is coloured in red).
Pierre Le mar. 30 juil. 2019 à 18:19, Peter Wicks (pwicks) <[email protected]> a écrit : > You know when you have a crazy complex flow, and it's hard sometimes to > even tell where things are going? Especially those failure conditions that > are all going back to a central Funnel or Port? I thought it would be > visually very helpful if you could add Color to your connections, using the > existing UI components in place for doing that. > > I have a working POC, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-6504. > Which includes a screenshot and link to the branch. > > There are a number of open questions: > > * Should the markers (arrows) be colored also? > * Should there be an option to color other components such as funnel's > or ports? > * I've also considered adding some additional line formatting options > such as thickness and dashes, like the dashed green lines you see when > creating a new relationship, or the extra thick lines that represent > multiple relationships use now. > * Should there be an option to adjust connection z-index so that users > can make sure a connection isn't overlapping things in a weird way. > > The goal of this ticket is fully on making it easier and faster for users > to visually understand a flow. Any feedback is appreciated! > > Thanks, > Peter >
