Timer Boundary Event lines cross the whole diagram

[mgleis]

Hi, you awesome people.

I have several Timer Boundary Events which lead to the same end node (Timeout).

Unfortunately the lines cross the whole diagram.

Is there something you can do about?

example.bpmn.txt

[barmac]

We are happy to accept contributions fixing this problem. I'd expect the sequence flows to go to the bottom.

[mgleis]

Thank you for your trust. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea where to start...

[IvanTulaev]

@mgleis Good case!

There are two different ways:

1. use another layout schema with my fork

3. wait bugfix and merging in main repo 😢

[IvanTulaev]

[IvanTulaev]

@mgleis
is it good for you?

[IvanTulaev]

@barmac fix of this bug will close #113
But I can't move forward until the previous PRs not merged.

[mgleis]

@IvanTulaev Your tries are better but still lacking... I don't like it if one edge is above the other. You can't tell where the edges go.

Manually I would draw it like this:

Or even better like this:

And ideally I think overlapping lines should be avoided... add slightly shifted edges like this?

[IvanTulaev]

@mgleis, thanks for the good layout case!

The second option can be implemented in my fork. It will look like this:

Unfortunately, the original repository will require a lot of changes 😢 . Practically, the entire system of element placement will be rewritten from scratch.

The third option is a different functionality not related to the location of BPMN nodes.
IvanTulaev/bpmn-auto-layout-feat-IvanTulaev#36

[IvanTulaev]

@mgleis, at final will be

[IvanTulaev]

@mgleis, update my repo and demo. You are welcome.

https://ivantulaev.github.io/yet-another-bpmn-auto-layout/

[mgleis]

Yeeeeeha! That Looks amazing!

Why are you doing this all in your fork, and why isn't it merged back to this project?