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Joe Witt updated NIFI-7782:
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Summary: Visually distinct processors (was: Visually distinct processors,
_PLEASE_)
> Visually distinct processors
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> Key: NIFI-7782
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-7782
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Wish
> Reporter: Joseph Kesselman
> Priority: Major
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> If you're going to insist upon reinventing flowcharts and beanboxes, please
> learn the lessons those have to teach. One of the most important (outside of
> "programmers hate them, for good reasons") is that if the visual
> representation is to have any value at all it has to be _VISUAL_ – you need
> to take full advantage of the medium to help convey the meaning of the
> diagram. Rectangles that can at most be tagged with colors (and processor
> groups don't even allow that) give us nothing to work with for understanding
> the flow's actual operation. At the very least adopt the old flowcharting
> conventions – cylinder for storage, diamond for decision, scroll for
> print/report, and so on. Those would also help flows retain meaning when
> we're scrolled out far enough that you've stopped displaying their text.
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