Colour Coding Of Flow To Show "Last Run" Or "Active" Paths

[Bascule]

Hi,

I've come to Automagic from Llama - Llama has served me so well for so long that it's been a bit of a wrench! But, I have to say, I'm very impressed with Automagic so far

There's a feature in Llama whereby the currently active conditions are highlighted in the UI. Although Automagic's flow diagram layout is more sophisticated than Llama's UI, I'm missing the highlighting feature in Llama.

I like the way that Automagic highlights the paths when the flow is executed but I'm wondering if the highlighting could persist after the flow has run to show the current or last state of the flow?

[Martin]

Hi,

This does conceptually not work well since a condition is passive all the time, except right at the moment when the condition is executed (highlighted in red). For triggers it's also not working good since triggers in Automagic are event handlers by definition and don't represent a state that lasts for a longer period of time.
I could add some indication about the last executed path in a flow was, however this is also very limited since a flow could execute a loop and a condition could be 'false' a few times while the loop is executing and then once 'true' (like the example flow 'Countdown' available in the catalog) so it would be more appropriate to check the log of the flow which shows all the executed actions and conditions (admittedly in quite a cryptic way).

Regards,
Martin

[Bascule]

Martin,

Thanks for the reply - makes sense

Cheers,
Andy