Minor but confusing UI issue in BPM editor; crossed workflow arrows

[Berto2002]

Hi guys, please can you put this one on the roadmap for minor fixes?

When you have nodes like that, the entrance and exit are the wrong way around, in this case on the "to Repair" node. Looks like a minor tweak is needed to cater for that situation.

[Steve Giller]

I believe this is one of the reasons Via nodes were introduced.

[Berto2002]

Via doesn't really help (and would be very tedious to put two in every time we get this).

There's a UI issue here where staggered nodes seem to insist on having the in- and out-bound connections the 'wrong' way around.

[Steve Giller]

42 minutes ago, Berto2002 said:

having the in- and out-bound connections the 'wrong' way around.

I've tested this to confirm what I thought was the case, and in- is always the upper connector.

[Berto2002]

OK; I see it's working by design.

I guess would need to be a (very minor) enhancement; there are many, many cases when flows go up as well as down.

I venture that a future design improvement could accommodate a variable connector location dependent upon whether the previous and subsequent nodes are below or above.

Cheers Steve