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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 27, 2024

Enhancements on CA7 functions

CA7 Job Triggering Flow gives a complete flow of a selected job. However, that's too much results returned. The CA7 jobs I provided it's for a small AD project and we have many projects that are larger. It's very hard to find a selected job on the graph. I'm aware there's a job filter on the left and by clicking on the job it can highlight the job with doted lines and zoom in. But it's highlighted in blue lines, the color is too similar to the background and it doesn't zoom in enough. Each time we still have to go through the graph to find where the job is.


CA7 Paths takes start and end jobs, it doesn't provide all the successors within the graph. So users have to go back to CA7 Job Triggering Flow to grab the whole picture and often discouraged from its usability.


Ideally users would like to choose a starting job and an end job and the function should provide with all the successors between the job selected jobs only. AD Dev team mentioned in CA7 Job Triggering Flow, user can right click on one job then select hide incoming/out-going edges. In a real life scenario, when there are many jobs it is simply impossible to manually hide the edges one by one. In addition, usability needs to be enhanced. On the left side, there is a job filter. When clicking on the filtered job it should highlight the job in a noticeable color on the graph, as well as zooming into the job. When the graph gets too big, it is not working well.

Idea priority Medium