Add feature to automatically condense microflow/nanoflow actions and remove unused space
How often do you find yourself staring at a microflow that looks like a jumble of misplaced actions?
If your microflows resemble the first example above, consider yourself lucky—it’s often even longer and messier.
But what you actually want is something like this:
Sure, you could manually rearrange the actions to achieve this. But how much time are you willing to spend dragging elements around? And how much extra time do you waste scrolling left and right just to follow the logic of a messy flow?
A feature that automatically realigns actions and condenses unnecessary space would save valuable development time while also promoting best practices.
Let’s make Mendix microflows cleaner and more efficient
Thanks, Fabian
@Chris - This isn't a simple task. There are scenarios that are hard or impossible to improve.
On the other hand, the automatic instertion of actions is no better with this kind of flows.
Start small. Then improve. A system that could handle the simple cases would already be very helpful. You could also guide the system, by selecting a part of a microflow and only optimize that.
I would start such a feature with shrinking linear flows and loops, based on the users selection.
I fully agree, but you selected a simple situation, and how do you do this if.due to a split earlier, 2 or more lines of actions are stacked?