What if we promote the use of Labels as a way to highlight things. We could add functionality to expand their usefulness as a way to highlight things on the canvas. I believe that is their intended use.
Today you can create a label and change its color to highlight single or multiple components. Even better you can do it for any component (not just processors). To expand on functionality, I'm imagining a context menu and palette action to "Label" a selected component or components. This would prompt a user to pick a background and add text which would place a label around everything once it's applied. Rob On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking, in addition to changing the color of the icon on the > processor, that the color of the drop shadow could be changed as well. > That would provide more contrast, but preserve readability, in my opinion. > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 6:39 PM Andrew Grande <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Rolling with UI feedback threads. This time I'd like to discuss how NiFi >> 'lost' its ability to change processor boxes color. I.e. as you can see >> from a screenshot attached, it does change color for the processor in the >> flow overview panel, but the processor itself only changes the icon in the >> top-left of the box. I came across a few users who definitely miss the old >> way. I personally think changing the icon color for the processor doesn't >> go far enough, especially when one is dealing with a flow of several dozen >> processors, zooms in and out often. The overview helps, but it's not the >> same. >> >> Proposal - can we restore how color selection for the processor changed >> the actual background of the processor box on the canvas? Let the user go >> wild with colors and deal with readability, but at least it's easy to spot >> 'important' things this way. And with multi-tenant authorization it becomes >> a poor-man's doc between teams, to an extent. >> >> Thanks for any feedback, >> Andrew >> >
