I would really like to see some sort of "auto arrange" for Service Studio that just moves the items in an action to have nice even spacing, put the work for For loops to the side, make branches look nice, etc.J.Ja
Still waiting for this idea to be done by the OS team!!
Hello everyone,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
We have been following your ideas closely and as of ServiceStudio version 10.0.611.0 you will be able to align and distribute multiple nodes within a flow... as you can see in the following GIF:
Your feedback is of utmost importance to us, so please, do keep it coming. Let us know if you have any suggestion or comments.
Pedro -
Definitely an improvement! Not *quite* as "auto" as I had in mind, but much better!
J.Ja
Hi Justin,
I understand, this is not an auto arrange command that auto-magically gives you the perfect code aligned. I'm also not sure that we can deliver that kind of feature, since different people organize their code in different ways to improve readability (we talked with internal developers and saw these patterns).
Nevertheless, I think this will significantly improve a lot this use case, and we are also thinking about other ways to improve this arrange-flow feature (stay tuned!).
Please give us feedback ;)
Cheers
Vasco -
Like I said, this is much better! :)
God bless you! I think it will be very nice!!
Awesomeness. My OCD is satisfied. Thank you!
Good one guys, keep it coming
Hi guys,
In addiction to the align and distribute commands we'll also helping you positioning your elements when you are creating your flow (rather than having to align them afterwards).
To do this, and similarly to other programs such as Powerpoint and Google Presentations, while dragging a node you'll have grid lines to effortlessly align it with other existing nodes in the flow. Also, when getting closer to these nodes, it will snap to their position to make this operation even easier and faster:
This will be released soon! Stay tuned, enjoy, and give us feedback ;)
Nice! Love it.
This!
Awesome!
Was this feature removed by any chance?
I'm using the latest version 10.0.613.0 and there is no Align option available...
Ok, found it... it only appears if you have more then one item selected... That could be an improvement ;)
Hi Pedro,
What would "align and distribute" commands do when you only have one node?
Or are you suggesting that we should always show the commands even if disabled to raise the awareness of the feature?
Cheers!
"Or are you suggesting that we should always show the commands even if disabled to raise the awareness of the feature?"
+1
@Vasco
Both actually... By always showing it you raise awareness and you could make it align top to mean move the selected item to the top of the screen by itself.
I'm trying to recal, but I think that in (most) Microsoft products you can do the align single items, meaning that you will align with the screen itself
Probably only the distribute horizontally and vertically could be disabled if only one item is selected
Okay,
Thanks a lot for the feedback @Pedro and @Hanno ;)
It would be great to have an ability to re-organise the entity diagram automatically to benefit visibility. This also holds for the screen flow view too.
Most of the times Webflows doesn't have the icon's organized so i think this feature would be a nice to have.
It can help developers to find some content on it.
Similar to the idea of organizing desktop icon's.
wow, someone actually using it...
LOL yeah, I have looked at a Web Flow in years and years and years.
*haven't
Should this be merged with https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/45/auto-arrange-in-service-studio?
I don't think so Luis.
The idea is about webflows, the one you're linking to is for action flows. It can me an extension to it (-:
Even a organized person like don't use the webflows....
This idea was already solved together with this one:https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/45/auto-arrange-in-service-studio
Most of the time, we spend a lot of time organizing our flow of action. I would like to have a self-organizing functionality in my actions and preparation. OutSystems already recommends, on its good practices page, the organization of the flow of action: Keep Action Flows up and running.
This functionality would help a lot, especially in systems maintenance and refactoring teams.
Best regards,
Rodolfo Póvoa Leal
This is very useful, especially when working with large flows.
I would like to have the functionality of auto arranging my actions flow. This way I won’t have to worry about it.
Hi team,
Transposing a feature widely used in some IDE, related to auto code formatting, it would be very useful if the outsystems canvas had similar functionality.
Basically it would be possible for all elements to follow the same spacing and vertical orientation.
Thank you.
Ugh, didn't mean to do this merge, forgot this idea was marked as "implemented". :(