Support multiple flows

[jodigiordano]

Currently, the specification of a system (i.e. YAML) supports multiple flows but the editor / presentation only support one flow.

The current workaround is to duplicate a system to create another flow.

Instead, it would be useful to CRUD flows in a same system to present multiple use cases.

[Stan-Stani]

By multiple flows, what exactly do you mean?

[jodigiordano]

@Stan-Stani: If you look at the JSON of this system (view > json editor), you will see:

{
  "flows": [
    {
      "title": "flow 1",
      "steps": [
        {
          "keyframe": 0,
          "from": "foo",
          "to": "bar"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "flow 2",
      "steps": [
        {
          "keyframe": 0,
          "from": "bar",
          "to": "foo"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

So it is currently possible to define multiple flows for the same system but there is nothing in the UI to CRUD those multiple flows. Right now, there is a lot of hardcoded code that only works for one flow.

The idea of supporting multiple flows is to create a system once, and then show multiple use cases of that system. For example, here's a use case and here's another use case. Those are 2 completely independent graphs however. It would have been nice that I give you 2 links that looks like:

https://gg-charts.com#file=<X>&flow=0
https://gg-charts.com#file=<X>&flow=1

[jodigiordano]

I'm pivoting this project to a general diagramming tool so there is no need for this feature anymore. Sorry!

[Stan-Stani]

@jodigiordano Would you mind explaining your decision to remove the animation of the flows? Just trying to figure out why that feature was removed. General diagramming tools don't need animations? :) 🧐