re-nest

[margolyesh]

Hi, Phil!

There are 2 elements on a view without nest.

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// Add some ArchiMate elements to the Model
var app = model.createElement("application-component", "App");
var api = model.createElement("application-interface", "API");

// Add an ArchiMate relationship to the Model
var relationship = model.createRelationship("composition-relationship", "", app, api);

// Add an ArchiMate view to the default "Views" folder
var archimateView = model.createArchimateView("View 1");

// Add some objects to the ArchiMate view containing the elements (-1 = default width and height)
var object1 = archimateView.add(app, 10, 10, 200, 150, false);
var object2 = archimateView.add(api, 500, 300, -1, -1, false);

// Add a visual connection containing the relationship
var connection = archimateView.add(relationship, object1, object2);
Then I want to make them nested, and have the model be valid. Is this possible? It doesn't work for me.
For some reasons I don't want to do it this way:

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// Add some ArchiMate elements to the Model
var app = model.createElement("application-component", "App");
var api = model.createElement("application-interface", "API");

// Add an ArchiMate relationship to the Model
var relationship = model.createRelationship("composition-relationship", "", app, api);

// Add an ArchiMate view to the default "Views" folder
var archimateView = model.createArchimateView("View 1");

// Add some objects to the ArchiMate view containing the elements (-1 = default width and height)
var object1 = archimateView.add(app, 10, 10, 200, 150, false);
var object2 = archimateView.add(api, 30, 30, -1, -1, true);

// Add a visual connection containing the relationship
var connection = archimateView.add(relationship, object1, object2);

[Phil Beauvoir]

At the moment, jArchi doesn't support moving a visual object from one parent to another (see here). An alternative approach when creating visual objects is to add the new object to a parent object instead of to the view with the nesting option:

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var object1 = archimateView.add(app, 10, 10, 200, 150);
var object2 = object1.add(api, 45, 45, -1, -1);
var connection = archimateView.add(relationship, object1, object2);


[margolyesh]

Got it. Is there any possibility to put connection on view if one object is nested and the other is not? With jArchi, of course.