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It would be nice to be able to filter out mappings involving the Assign activity by opening the Navigator and clicking on individual Copy children that may exist inside the Assign activity. When the user clicks on the Copy children in the Navigator, only that particular Copy assignment would show inside the Assign mapper... this effectively filters out all mappings except our Copy of interest.
*** Issue 81873 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 87385 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Actually, there was a subtle difference in the RFE 87385. It was not an exact dupliacate. Yes, it should remain a duplicate issue, but we should consider the subtle difference in design that was suggested in that issue. The difference was that that issue suggested that when user selected a particular Copy in the Navigator, then the Mapper would auto expand and HIGHLIGHT the connections that define that particular copy rule. However, as originally written, that would suggest that ALL of the copy rules for the Assignment are still visible and active, the only difference is that the selected node's connections are highlighted. This is slightly different from Josh description in this issue, which suggests that ONLY the current copy rule is visible at all. Both approaches have merit. How do we decide between them? One possible tie breaker is that if ALL rules are still visible it would imply that user could start messing around with the other copy rules, not just the ones that was originally selected (i.e. the current navigator node's rule). What should happen then? Should the navigator and copy rule selection be synchronized so that as user selects a rule in the mapper, the same node is selected in Navigtor? Any problem with that? Is that better than showing only the current rule? Perhaps a filter option on Mapper would give user choice : "Show only selected Rule" or something to that effect for users that want to reduce the noise?
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