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Request: limiting depth and drawn elements

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
go

Research direction

The payload names no source files, tests or entry points, so the first step is to find the tree view and diagram rendering code in the repository and the standard filter conditions the issue refers to. The request needs a design decision first: how depth limits and per-element include or exclude selection should be expressed, and whether a non-standard extension is acceptable. The linked syside depth attribute is the reference point. Done means a maintainer-agreed design, not a patch.

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Description

enhancement

Currently tree view shows full containment tree of exposed elements. Filter conditions as per standard and pilot implementation affect only root nodes and as I understood are quite limited (e.g. cannot express depth).

Yet, when there are more than two levels of decomposition, tree diagram and interconnection diagrams become huge, especially when each element has some metadata. So, to efficiently visualise large model there should be mechanism to limit depth of the tree to be rendered and individually select or blacklist shown elements.

Currently I did not find such function in the spec. It looks like non-standard library is needed for that with appropriate tool support.

Some search shows that syside uses attribute depth for that https://docs.sensmetry.com/extension/diagram-views/configuring/#extension-sysml-views-depth, but in my opinion finer control is often needed.

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Go
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