Sequence diagram view of a flow in IcePanel
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Sol Kahn
+1 for this feature.
Reasons:
- As a visual person, I really like the ability to "at a glance" see what the whole flow is
- I need to be able to embed the flow in places other than confluence (e.g. gdocs) that don't have build in PlantUML rendering. At the moment, I solve this problem by embedding in Confluence, saving the resulting image to PNG, and then inserting that in my gslides or gdocs. This is not an efficient workflow - especially when (right now!) my PlantUML confluence plug in isn't working. PlantUML.com is my back up b/c we don't have a contractual relationship and attendant data management policy in place
I would love one step further... generate a swimlane diagram using the elements as swimlanes, the step name as the activity. But... I am aware that's a lot more work - especially as PlanUML doesn't support swimlane process diagrams b/c they aren't part of UML. Swimlane diagrams are much more understandable by non-technical stakeholders and make it easier to allocated business logic to technical elements.
BTW:
for those that don't already know...
you can manage the order and labels of your actors and participants by adding header information to the PlantUML code you get from Icepanel like this:
@startuml
actor "IcePanel Actor 2"
participant "IcePanel System 1"
participant "IcePanel System 2"
actor "IcePanel Actor 2"
Where the strings in the "" are the labels from IcePanel.
There's a whole bunch of useful info here:https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram
Rosie Walker-Jones
+1 We would love this functionality too
Antonio Pugliese
it would be nice for each vertical line in the sequence diagram to keep its context (e.g. the sequence diagram is between components, and the diagram also includes app information to discern which app the components belong to)