https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92902

--- Comment #3 from mrmister001 <[email protected]> ---
Hi Heiko,
Thanks for your reply.
However I don't know if you understood the feature very well. You cannot
compare this with templates or Smart Art, because it is not.
To understand how an auntomatic flowchart works you must think in two columns,
from a spreadsheet.
Think in column A and column B.
The idea behind this is that you draw boxes according the data provided in the
column A
And you link this data with the results provided in the column B
If some data from column A (Source) is repeated... and match new data from
column B (Tarfet), then we draw multiple boxes
For example, let's imagine in column A (Source) we have a list of names, and in
the column B (Target) we have a list of departments.

Source     Target
John       Sales
Mike       R+D
Peter      Sales
Dana       Accounting
Richard    Sales
John       Customer Service
Peter      Customer Service

What will happen is due John is related to the Sales and also to the Customer
Service, Draw will create two boxes, one indicating Sales and the other
Customer Service, and both boxes will be connected to John, which will be
represented also in a box.
Mike for example, will be inside a box and will be connected with R+D which
will be also inside a box. Mike won't have more connections because is not
connected more new data.
Peter will experience the same behavior as John, because he works in Sales and
also in the Customer Service, so we will see how draw create a Box for Peter,
and connect this box with two new boxes, one indicating Sales and the other
Customer Service. Peter will be connected to these new boxes, thru lines.
That is the sense behind automatic flowcharting.

THERE IS A VERY IMPORTANT PROGRAM THAT ALREADY DO THIS: YED (FROM YWORKS).
It is made in Jave, and free to download.

I really encourage everyone to understand how YED works and apply the same
philoshopy to Draw.

I remind also that Visio don't have this feature, so basically if this is
implemented inside Draw, it would make Visio bleed deeply.

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