DCM Notes for 2024-09-16

[glopesdev]

Issues

• Accessing a disabled nested operator throws an error #2004
• Disabled dangling branches lead to runtime differences in subscription behavior #2007

Features

• Consider expanding explorer level on clicking the node text #1993
• Consider Esc as a way to return focus to the canvas/toolbox #1992

Documentation

• Add API template docfx-tools#9

[glopesdev]

Feedback from design meeting:

• @bruno-f-cruz suggested always opening include workflows in a new tab and not show them in the explorer by default. In the new tab the explorer would show the hierarchy in the context of the include
• @hgmarques suggested showing subjects in the workflow for ease of search. one alternative could be to provide a separate search output panel where all search hits are listed and allow jumping into that workflow section
• for disabled nodes, gray out the background color of each node, but do not apply the disabled brush, otherwise we cannot distinguish the nested nodes which are themselves explicitly disabled
• consider using annotations on the text of disabled nodes, e.g. strikethrough or grayed out text
• with the above we may be able to defer drawing the operators in the treeview for this release, but could be very useful long-term and also when rendering individual operators, either in the treeview or the search results list