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camunda / camunda-eclipse-standalone

A BPMN Modeler based on the Camunda Eclipse Plug-in
Eclipse Public License 1.0
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Generate PNG #14

Open martinschimak opened 10 years ago

martinschimak commented 10 years ago

I would like to have the possibility to generate a png aside my opened bpmn (original folder).

nikku commented 10 years ago

This should be an optional feature that may be switched on in the modelers properties.

What is your use case for it? You can always export an image via Right Click > Export.

martinschimak commented 10 years ago

Hi.

My use case is that I want to regularly commit the PNG to git so that I can easily reason about the last status of the implemented BPMN with the customer who is also looking at the commits (via via github/bitbucket commenting and without further need for bpmn tooling). Therefore it should be really easy to generate such a picture. Via Right Click > Export it's possible, but I need to select the image format and then navigate to the folder from which I originally opened my BPMN. I hope it does not sound unreasonable that this is really annoying in practice. :-)

I agree that it would be great to have that as an optional feature, because actually it's not always optimal that the eclipse modeler always does that by default. I think I would be really happy with more sensible defaults when clicking Right Click > Export: 1) png and 2) original folder of the bpmn preselected.