It seems that it is not possible to visualize action flows, is that right?
Hi @Vaclav_Barta, Syside Modeler v0.8.5 added support for new diagram types, action flows should now be displayed correctly:
Hi Simas,
I am now digging into the tool. Beyond the Sensmetry setup, my next step was to try to load the model created by SysON for the Asatte Press “Quick Start” guide for SysML V2 for SysON. See:
At any rate, it does load the *.sysml file nicely. But visualization only shows package views, even though Obeo seems to be the farthest along the other tool suppliers in terms of providing view elements with expose statements. In our example, the action flow is defined within an action, not a part. No Magic, Ansys SAM, and Obeo SysON are all fine with this. In SysIDE it looks like this:
No action flow. The view inside the tool looks like this:
(Most of the tools are still struggling with guarded successions for some reason. We had to add them as an “artists conception” manually to the image using paint.)
Is there a way to point Tom Sawyer at the “Visitor Arrival Story” action and get it to render the action flow within?
Thanks!
Hi David,
You need to right-click on hte “Visitor Arrival Story” in the diagram and choose “Show Children as Nested”
Then, the action flow will appear:
And yes, we currently do not show the guard conditions as well.
For more information of how to use Syside Modeler visualisation features, refer to the documentation.
Hi Simonas,
Thanks for the tip. My render actually looks nicer than the one you posted. I will spend some time with the documentation. My next question will be very similar to questions being asked by others → how to get Tom Sawyer to suppress the not very helpful actions compartment.
Also, how to suppress the “:> subactions” notation:
Hello - I am also interested in this question. I am trying to create activity flow views and would like to hide the subaction type and default inherited action properties compartment. Has there been any progress on removing these from the activity flow view?
(As the original poster) I have been getting much better results using Sensmetry’s own VIZ renderer rather than Tom Sawyer. You have to install the Modeler CLI:
Once you have that set up, you need to invoke the renderer from the command line. The invocation commands are a bit long, so I usually put them in a PowerShell command file. This forum’s security features will not let me upload the PowerShell command file directly. However, here is one that did a nice job of making a picture of some dependencies for me yesterday:
syside viz view Test-2050-Dependency.sysml --name “T2050DP::MySys::ShowDependencies” -o diagrams
Notice the filename at the start and the qualified name of the view in quotation marks. Output is a SVG. That I can upload.
Very pretty. And there is an option to set up a color scheme (unlike Tom Sawyer) which I have not got around to quite yet but plan to implement soon.
Hi David,
Great that you are able to visualize what you want! Colors can be customized by user in syside.toml file ( see custom colors section in Modeler CLI configuration docs https://docs.sensmetry.com/modeler/cli/configuration/#modeler-cli-configuration ).
You can place in default workspace folder, or pass a custom differently-named toml config file via syside viz --config command option.
Here is the default syside.toml contents related to Modeler Viz that I use:
# Modeler Viz settings
[viz.layout.render_style]
general = "nested"
interconnection = "nested"
action_flow = "nested"
state_transition = "nested"
sequence = "nested"
[viz.expose]
# subtree | promoted | flat
mode = "subtree"
[viz.compartments]
# max_entries = 1 # -1 unlimited, 0 hides feature compartments, N shows the first N entries; doc and metadata are never capped
show_inherited_rows = true # false hides inherited (^) compartment rows
show_annotation_rows = true # false hides doc and metadata compartment rows
[viz.labels]
show_fork_join_labels = false
show_decide_merge_labels = false
[viz.filters.general]
show_node_heritage_edges = true
show_port_heritage_edges = false
show_inherited_nodes = true
show_attributes_as = "compartments" # "nodes" | "compartments" | "hidden" (unset: compartments in nested, nodes in tree)
[viz.filters.interconnection]
show_node_heritage_edges = true
show_port_heritage_edges = false
show_inherited_nodes = true
# show_attributes_as = "nodes" | "compartments" | "hidden" (unset: compartments in nested, nodes in tree)
[viz.filters.action_flow]
show_node_heritage_edges = true
show_port_heritage_edges = false
show_inherited_nodes = true
# show_attributes_as = "nodes" | "compartments" | "hidden" (unset: compartments in nested, nodes in tree)
[viz.filters.state_transition]
show_node_heritage_edges = true
show_port_heritage_edges = false
show_inherited_nodes = true
# show_attributes_as = "nodes" | "compartments" | "hidden" (unset: compartments in nested, nodes in tree)
[viz.filters.sequence]
show_node_heritage_edges = true
show_port_heritage_edges = false
show_inherited_nodes = true
# show_attributes_as = "nodes" | "compartments" | "hidden" (unset: compartments in nested, nodes in tree)
[viz.render]
# zoom_level = 3.0
[viz.style]
# light | dark | light_mono | dark_mono
theme = "light"
[viz.style.group.uniform]
members = [
"PartUsage", "PartDefinition",
"ActionUsage", "ActionDefinition",
"ItemUsage", "ItemDefinition",
"PortUsage", "PortDefinition",
"RequirementUsage", "RequirementDefinition",
"AttributeUsage", "AttributeDefinition",
"StateUsage", "StateDefinition",
"ConstraintUsage", "ConstraintDefinition",
"UseCaseUsage", "UseCaseDefinition",
"InterfaceUsage", "InterfaceDefinition",
"EnumerationUsage", "EnumerationDefinition",
"ReferenceUsage",
]
stroke = "#2c2c2eff"
# [viz.style.group.plain_usages]
# members = ["Usage"]
# fill_header = "#FD7D5D"
# fill_body = "#FFEEEE"
# text_keyword = "#5C2E22"
[viz.style.group.part_usage]
members = ["PartUsage"]
fill_header = "#88b7e3ff"
fill_body = "#f7f9ffff"
text_keyword = "#1f4373ff"
[viz.style.group.part_definition]
members = ["PartDefinition"]
fill_header = "#5d9ddbff"
fill_body = "#f7f9ffff"
text_keyword = "#163366ff"
[viz.style.group.action_usage]
members = ["ActionUsage"]
fill_header = "#80d6a7ff"
fill_body = "#f6fcf8ff"
text_keyword = "#1d5e3aff"
[viz.style.group.action_definition]
members = ["ActionDefinition"]
fill_header = "#43c479ff"
fill_body = "#f6fcf8ff"
text_keyword = "#0f4527ff"
[viz.style.group.item_usage]
members = ["ItemUsage"]
fill_header = "#f3cc7aff"
fill_body = "#fdfaeeff"
text_keyword = "#6e4f0dff"
[viz.style.group.item_definition]
members = ["ItemDefinition"]
fill_header = "#f0aa30ff"
fill_body = "#fdfaeeff"
text_keyword = "#503b08ff"
[viz.style.group.port_usage]
members = ["PortUsage"]
fill_header = "#c0adeaff"
fill_body = "#fbf7ffff"
text_keyword = "#492480ff"
[viz.style.group.port_definition]
members = ["PortDefinition", "ConjugatedPortDefinition"]
fill_header = "#a386dbff"
fill_body = "#fbf7ffff"
text_keyword = "#2f1565ff"
[viz.style.group.requirement_usage]
members = ["RequirementUsage"]
fill_header = "#f4969dff"
fill_body = "#fff7f9ff"
text_keyword = "#7a1c2aff"
[viz.style.group.requirement_definition]
members = ["RequirementDefinition"]
fill_header = "#ec5f6bff"
fill_body = "#fff7f9ff"
text_keyword = "#5e1220ff"
[viz.style.group.attribute_usage]
members = ["AttributeUsage"]
fill_header = "#b1bcd0ff"
fill_body = "#f7f8fbff"
text_keyword = "#363f55ff"
[viz.style.group.attribute_definition]
members = ["AttributeDefinition"]
fill_header = "#8295beff"
fill_body = "#f7f8fbff"
text_keyword = "#1f2839ff"
[viz.style.group.state_usage]
members = ["StateUsage"]
fill_header = "#80d6d6ff"
fill_body = "#f4fcfcff"
text_keyword = "#1d5e5eff"
[viz.style.group.state_definition]
members = ["StateDefinition"]
fill_header = "#38c4c4ff"
fill_body = "#f4fcfcff"
text_keyword = "#0f4545ff"
[viz.style.group.constraint_usage]
members = ["ConstraintUsage"]
fill_header = "#f5b272ff"
fill_body = "#fff5ebff"
text_keyword = "#704211ff"
[viz.style.group.constraint_definition]
members = ["ConstraintDefinition"]
fill_header = "#f0852fff"
fill_body = "#fff5ebff"
text_keyword = "#583108ff"
[viz.style.group.usecase_usage]
members = ["UseCaseUsage"]
fill_header = "#ccd966ff"
fill_body = "#fbfdf0ff"
text_keyword = "#54600fff"
[viz.style.group.usecase_definition]
members = ["UseCaseDefinition"]
fill_header = "#b8c426ff"
fill_body = "#fbfdf0ff"
text_keyword = "#3b3f08ff"
[viz.style.group.interface_usage]
members = ["InterfaceUsage"]
fill_header = "#b3b3ebff"
fill_body = "#f5f5ffff"
text_keyword = "#2c3573ff"
[viz.style.group.interface_definition]
members = ["InterfaceDefinition"]
fill_header = "#8a8ad9ff"
fill_body = "#f5f5ffff"
text_keyword = "#222266ff"
[viz.style.group.enumeration_usage]
members = ["EnumerationUsage"]
fill_header = "#ffe066ff"
fill_body = "#fffdf0ff"
text_keyword = "#6b5800ff"
[viz.style.group.enumeration_definition]
members = ["EnumerationDefinition"]
fill_header = "#f5c518ff"
fill_body = "#fffdf0ff"
text_keyword = "#4a3d00ff"
[viz.style.group.reference_usage]
members = ["ReferenceUsage"]
fill_header = "#e3e3e3ff"
fill_body = "#f7f9ffff"
text_keyword = "#737373ff"
[viz.style.group.connections]
members = ["ConnectionUsage", "ConnectionDefinition"]
fill_header = "#FFFACDFF"
fill_body = "#FFFFE0FF"
text_keyword = "#737373ff"
# EDGES
# [viz.style.group.specialization_edges]
# members = ["Specialization"]
# stroke_edge = "#4d4d51ff"
# text_edge = "#4d4d51ff"
#
# [viz.style.group.dependency_edges]
# members = ["Dependency"]
# stroke_edge = "#636367ff"
# text_edge = "#636367ff"
[viz.style.group.annotation_edges]
members = ["Annotation"]
stroke_edge = "#96670eff"
text_edge = "#96670eff"
[viz.style.group.binding_edges]
members = ["BindingConnectorAsUsage"]
stroke_edge = "#7a2470ff"
text_edge = "#7a2470ff"
[viz.style.group.connection_edges]
members = ["ConnectionUsage"]
stroke_edge = "#224e82ff"
text_edge = "#224e82ff"
[viz.style.group.interface_edges]
members = ["InterfaceUsage"]
stroke_edge = "#35359bff"
text_edge = "#35359bff"
[viz.style.group.allocation_edges]
members = ["AllocationUsage"]
stroke_edge = "#5a4c73ff"
text_edge = "#5a4c73ff"
[viz.style.group.flow_edges]
members = ["FlowUsage"]
stroke_edge = "#8d5b0cff"
text_edge = "#8d5b0cff"
[viz.style.group.succession_edges]
members = ["SuccessionAsUsage"]
stroke_edge = "#217244ff"
text_edge = "#217244ff"
[viz.style.group.transition_edges]
members = ["TransitionUsage", "ExhibitStateUsage"]
stroke_edge = "#166f6fff"
text_edge = "#166f6fff"
[viz.style.group.requirement_edges]
members = ["SatisfyRequirementUsage", "RequirementConstraintMembership"]
stroke_edge = "#942b35ff"
text_edge = "#942b35ff"
[viz.style.group.constraint_edges]
members = ["AssertConstraintUsage"]
stroke_edge = "#9f551cff"
text_edge = "#9f551cff"
[viz.style.group.usecase_edges]
members = ["IncludeUseCaseUsage"]
stroke_edge = "#636f14ff"
text_edge = "#636f14ff"
Hope it helps!
Kestutis