Color the IF connectors Green and Red
1207
Views
23
Comments
On our RadarOn our Radar
Service Studio

After yet another bug with swapping an IF... could the True connector be GREEN and False RED? Thought i already posted this idea years ago, but couldn't find it...




2016-04-21 20-09-55
J.
 
MVP

Interesting thought.


Be careful about the colourblind people.

Furthermore, it should not become  a christmastree

Maybe a Red false is enough

+1 on idea, +1 on softening up the color intensity

Yes, this is a common bug that could be easily spotted just by visually analysis.

Maybe instead of coloring the arrows, just coloring the "True" and "False".

Whatever the solution adopted, for me, this is +1 for improving our low-code. :)

+1 on the idea, +1 for only the red one. Because it shouldn't look like a Christmas tree like J. is saying.

Also a Red one for the otherwise in Switch

+1

Agreed.

I would like to see this feature. Sometimes application stops working because of wrong if connectors. This one will expedite the debugging process.

To avoid having a Christmas tree, as J. says, maybe playing with the thickness of the True or False arrow would help.

Merged this idea with 'Visually differentiate the true/false connectors of the If tool' (created on 14 Sep 2019 08:10:02 by Ricardo Sousa)

It happen to all of us, we drag it, we complete the remaining logic and it the end it does't work because we forgot to swap the connectors...

So, to help avoid similar situations the platform could visually differentiate the true/false connectors of the If tool.


Example:

or 





This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Visually differentiate the true/false connectors of the If tool' (created on 14 Sep 2019 by Ricardo Sousa)
- merged to idea 'Color the IF connectors Green and Red' on 16 Sep 2019 09:28:57 by Kilian Hekhuis

Super nice. Bring this to service studio please! 



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Visually differentiate the true/false connectors of the If tool' (created on 14 Sep 2019 by Ricardo Sousa)
- merged to idea 'Color the IF connectors Green and Red' on 16 Sep 2019 09:28:58 by Kilian Hekhuis

Good idea!!

My Vote for you.



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Visually differentiate the true/false connectors of the If tool' (created on 14 Sep 2019 by Ricardo Sousa)
- merged to idea 'Color the IF connectors Green and Red' on 16 Sep 2019 09:28:58 by Kilian Hekhuis

If it is for one true/false path, it has been supplied as label.

If for the entire flow of true/false, this could be confusing for the case where one is implementing nested conditions.

if --(false)--> if --(true)--> if --(false)--> if --(false)--> if --(false)--> if --(true)--> 



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Visually differentiate the true/false connectors of the If tool' (created on 14 Sep 2019 by Ricardo Sousa)
- merged to idea 'Color the IF connectors Green and Red' on 16 Sep 2019 09:28:58 by Kilian Hekhuis

Hi all,

I think it would be helpful if the True branch was the default one when we drag & drop an If node. That way, situations where we forget to swap connectors would be avoided.


Cheers!



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Visually differentiate the true/false connectors of the If tool' (created on 14 Sep 2019 by Ricardo Sousa)
- merged to idea 'Color the IF connectors Green and Red' on 16 Sep 2019 09:28:58 by Kilian Hekhuis

@Ricardo Reis: there's an Idea for that here (oh, I see you alread commented there :)).



This comment was:
- originally posted on idea 'Visually differentiate the true/false connectors of the If tool' (created on 14 Sep 2019 by Ricardo Sousa)
- merged to idea 'Color the IF connectors Green and Red' on 16 Sep 2019 09:28:58 by Kilian Hekhuis

This idea could also be adapted to Switch connectors

+1 on the idea, +1 for only the red one.

Merged this idea with 'Color Code If Connectors' (created on 27 Feb 2024 13:16:02 by Pedro Ferreira)

I propose that color coding is implemented for the connectors coming out of an If inside an action.

This is obviously nothing urgent at all but it often happens to me and others building logic, publish the module and publish the consumers only to find out that the If connectors must be swapped.

I believe a color such as Green for True and Red for False would be more visible than a mere True and False label as it is now.

I understand there are way more important ideas to implement but I also believe that many people would benefit from this slight change.

Hi Pedro,

Interesting to read this idea. We also frequently encounter the IF-swapping phenomenon. I'm not 100% sure if adding colors will help alleviate this issue, but I do support your idea! 

When you drag an IF element into a flow, the false lane is the default one that goes downwards. Perhaps this has something to do with it? I'm inclined to let the true lane flow downwards. 

Best,

Bart

Would save me a lot of headaches :-D

Please first search if the idea you have is already posted.

This is actually a popular idea dating back to 2016!

So I have to merge yours.