WF Designer - How to display full Activity Full Name
Hi Dear,
I would like to take a print screen of my WF Design to document my work but when the activity name is long then the WF Designer cuts the end of the name and replace it with dots (e.g., receiveCustomerOrder is displayed as receiveCustomer...).
It would be nice if the WF designer allows adjusting the size of the Activity shapes (just like controls in a WinForm) but unfortunatly it does not. The shape size is fixed. Could you please advice on how to get the WF designer to display the Activity Full Name? How can we resize the Activity shape?
(I hope that I wouldn't need custom activities for such simple feature)
Thanks
Karim
Thanks Paul,
Do you think that resizing WF activities in the designer will be addressed before WF release?
That would be nice so that the Workflow design could be leveraged for documentation instead of re-drawing all in a tool such as Visio.
Are there any plans to allow using Visio as WF designer? May be that could solve this issue! Also upfront analysis and design drawings could be leveraged to kick-start workflow implementation.
Any thoughts on the above are appreciated.
Thanks
Could not agree more. I can so NO reason why we no should be able to use the Designer View as Documentation. Eg if i have activities named MyCustomActivity1,MyCustomActivity2, MyCustomActivity3 i would not be very usefull to se MyCustomActiv... => MyCustomActiv... => MyCustomActiv...
My vote for that. Guess i would be wuite simple to enable some "auto size" on the activties..eg enable/disable feature.
Regards
Anders Jacobsen
Do you really want a single code activity to take up the full screen just because you gave it a verbose name? For a small workflow making activities larger, so that the entire name can be displayed, might seem like a great idea. However, with a complex workflow this would probably become annoying.
Agreed tom. By why not make it an option? Can't see why not give the developers a "Custumize designer" window where one can set Enable autosize activities, Text size, and whatever, on the Seqiential workflow designer.
Hi Karim,
Allowing users to resize activities is an interesting idea. Unfortunately with WF being at release candidate 4 already we can't add this feature. I would encourage you to suggest this at the WF technology feedback center so that we consider it for our next version.
You could also build a resizable activity now and share it with the community.
Regards,
Paul
