The current functionality to align the code takes a lot of effort and time to use(Right click -> Go to align and only after that we can click again to select an option) - three steps.

What I suggest is a simpler or default auto align to format all the code from a flow.

This should be a simple option to access by mouse or keyboard shortcut(Ctrl + Shift + F).

Example of the golang implementation https://blog.golang.org/go-fmt-your-code.

The auto align rules can be defined by you :)

Hello,

In major projects, its very hard to maintain nodes alignment and indentations. can we have a feature that can auto alignment all the nodes without any manual work?

This feature will help code readability for the projects that already developed and being handled by support team.

Thanks

It could be nice if using the grid, the used could select the "step" to arrange the auto location of the nodes.

It could have a default value (example 5 points), but the could parameter  it 

Regards

I found a idea in the same direction....

https://www.outsystems.com/ideas/5944/Help+to+leave+the+elements+equidistant%2c++see+the+gif.?IsFromAdvancedSearch=True

Option to organize the flow with a standard distance and alignment.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

This has already been proposed, and marked as "Out of Scope", unfortunately. :(

Idea - Automatic code alignment | OutSystems 

J.Ja

Currently, when a screen/s and block/s is moved or pasted in a flow, it is just randomly placed or scattered in the work space of the flow.

Would love to see a function which would align them automatically or just put them side by side when pasted or created.

Good Idea!

There's already alignment functionality built in. Every time this kind of Idea comes up, I merge it with the auto arrange Idea, then remember that the auto arrange idea was marked as "implemented".

If you select multiple items and right click, there's an "align" and "distribute" option. Can you try it and let me know if it does what you need?

J.Ja

Hi Justin,

Thanks for this.

It would be nice if there was a way to automatically space the logical flow when building the application.Making it standard and more readable.

Can't we already do this by selecting the flow elements, right-clicking, and choosing Align? 

Hi Beatriz, I believe the idea is that it would happen automatically.

A treat for devs with OCD:

Hi José,

Don't the current allign options not do this already?

Regards,

Daniel

They don't fix distances.

The only useful Align currently is Align Left/Right.

That what are the distribute menu options are for

Add an ability to organize and format an action flow so that a messy action can be automatically spaced and aligned nicely.  Accessible by right clicking the canvas or from the Edit menu, and choosing Organize, the action nodes would be nicely spaced and aligned vertically and horizontally.  Similar to how traditional programming IDE's will format code for indenting and line breaks.

When working on an application with multiple developers, you sometimes observe that not every code follows the same code formatting style. For example, spacing between code elements can sometimes be quite different.

It would be nice to have the option to auto-format code in Service Studio. This auto-formatting can maybe also be configured to follow a custom specified formatting style.

The benefit of this functionality would be consistency in code formatting.

Would be SO helpful to speed up having clean code.

Hi buddies,

I hope you're doing well.

I'm an OutSystems Developer and sometimes I need to develop some big server/client actions with a lot of things inside. I lost a lot of time organizing the workflow to look nice and readable.

My idea is the creation of a button in the Service Studio that automatically organizes the server/client actions workflow in the best way possible to look nice and readable. Basically, will put all the items aligned horizontally and vertically and will create a happy path.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you.

Kind regards,

FC