Resizable Entities

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Resizable Entities

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It would be super usefull if entities in the domain model could be resized just like actions in a microflow.

Sometimes entities have a lot of (cross-module) associations but only a few attributes. In this case, it is impossible to see the associations. It would be helpful to be able to resize the entity so that all the associations become visible again.

asked 2022-11-23

Andreas Blaesius

4 answers

Andre Nickel · Answer 1 · 2025-05-02

Lately I find more and more domain models where this kind of stuff gets out of hand.

A lot of assasiations cannot be read because the entity cannot be resized.

What I do is copy an attribute to make it bigger, but this cannot be the solution for something like this.

Here is an example:

I would like to have some kind of resizing of entities, it would greatly help with the readability of enitys.

Some attributes also get out of hand with it lengths so this would help a lot in this regard as the only solution is to open the details of the entity.

Rob de Leeuw · Answer 2 · 2022-11-25

Great Idea, I couldn't agree more!
Please see some similar idea's I posted in November 2020 :
https://forum.mendix.com/link/ideas/2154 -> about Domain Model drawings
https://forum.mendix.com/link/ideas/2176 -> about about associations

Hoping the Domain Model drawing tool will improve soon, that's my biggest wish at the moment

Thanks!

Andreas Blaesius · Answer 3 · 2022-11-25

@Sander

I don’t really need horizontal adjustment and I am completely fine with automatic resizing. I just want to be able to see everything.

Sander Schaeffer · Answer 4 · 2022-11-24

I agree and did vote for your idea. I do have two questions:

Fully manually adjustable or sufficiently intelligent to responsively adjust vertically either by number of attributes or associations, whichever is longer?
If manually: Horizontal, Vertical or both directions resizeable?

I would personally prefer no entity-size user-adjustable entities, as I'll probably end up working in someone else's project with lots of various sized entities. I'm pretty visual focused and my OCD would have a hard time looking at that unorganized mess. In addition, I wouldn't mind for vertically-sizeable entities, but would prefer for all of them to keep the same width.