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Bug 89040 - Message Flow links should highlight on Activity selection
Summary: Message Flow links should highlight on Activity selection
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: soa
Classification: Unclassified
Component: BPEL (show other bugs)
Version: 5.x
Hardware: All All
: P1 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Alexey Anjeleevich
URL:
Keywords: UI
: 86150 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 89926
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Reported: 2006-11-09 15:44 UTC by Michael Frisino
Modified: 2007-02-14 05:58 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Michael Frisino 2006-11-09 15:44:47 UTC 
Use case - User selects an WS Activity (receive, reply, onmessage, invoke, etc).
User sees that this has message flow(s). User wishes to understand what is the
endpoint of this message flow (i.e. what is the partner and operation to which
this is attached). 

Recommendation:
On selection of the WS activity, the message flow(s) can be highlighted in order
to help distinguish this message flow from other message flows in diagram.

Issues and Questions:
Maybe would be nice to have some shortcut to take you to the end of the message
flow as well. Problem with this is that the message flows are not individually
selectable so in case where there are > 1 message flow connected to single
activity, it would not be possible to determine which flow to "follow".
Comment 1 Michael Frisino 2006-11-13 12:12:37 UTC 
*** Issue 86150 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 2 Nikita Krjukov 2006-11-22 16:24:17 UTC 
The message links highlighting is alredy done. 

But it looks not very impressive. It maybe worth to draw such highlighted links 
with a bit different color but not only with thicker line. 

Also it would be very helpful to have an additional pup-up menu item for 
message related activities: Go to Partner Link. Such action should move 
selection to the related Partner Link. The action has to be disabled if the 
activity isn't linked to a Partner Link yet.
Comment 3 Michael Frisino 2006-11-28 07:34:54 UTC 
We should open new issue for Go To Partner Link feature action. I thought it was
dicussed already. I'm trying to remember if there were objections or not.
Perhaps there is concern of > 1 partner link being connected to same Web Service
activity. If so then go to partner link is indeterminate.
Comment 4 Michael Frisino 2006-11-29 10:23:34 UTC 
1) Agree that the current bolding is not strong enough. We need help from HIE to
come up with better line contrasts.

2) After discussion it was determined that a specific Go To Parnter Link action
is not required. It should be part of the general Go To Definition feature that
will be available for all references. See issue 89685.
Comment 5 Michael Frisino 2007-01-22 11:49:24 UTC 
Recommendation 1) is to make the connection line color the same as the color
used for item selection (GREEN).

Recommendation 2) Add context action "Scroll To Partner Link". This will scroll
to make the Partner Link visible, but the WS Activity will remain selected.
Comment 6 Alexey Anjeleevich 2007-01-25 11:09:12 UTC 
1) Color was changed
2) Context menu action was added. 
Sometimes pattern can be connected with several partner links. In this case 
we add submenu "Scroll To Partner Link" in which user can choose to what partner
link he want scroll.
Comment 7 _ hong_lin 2007-02-14 05:58:13 UTC 
Verified the feature is in Gavotte daily build 070212_24