I can define different views for my BPMN diagrams

[gimbel]

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[gimbel]

Motivation:
People who create complex collaboration diagrams, sometimes want to create views which only show some pools of a process, so that the models are easier to understand.

[nikku]

This is typically specified through different BPMNDiagram elements contained in one diagram file and we should support that mechanism in a sense that

• Users may select which view to render (may be specified during import)
• We only render elements that have DI information in a given diagram (we already do that)
• If an element is hidden we need to make sure related elements such as connections or children are not drawn, too.

When defining a view

• Users may specify which elements are included

One important question is: Do we want to support editing on partial views?

[jakobfreund]

One important question is: Do we want to support editing on partial views?

my2cents: Although it would be a great feature to have, the added value compared to creating partial views at all is way smaller. So I would focus on the pure views for now and skip editing on partial news, assuming that is a considerable effort to allow that.

[nikku]

This got recently covered by the BPMN MIWG working group via test case C.4.0.bpmn.

[snakebyte85]

I have the problem to support an XML exported from another modeler, where the user can build multiple collaborations/processes per single project/xml file

I added the support to select a specific diagram to be rendered, using ID of the process or collaboration. Check my pull request #967 if you want to test against https://github.com/bpmn-miwg/bpmn-miwg-test-suite/blob/master/Reference/C.4.0.bpmn