Help to create activity diagram

Question

Hello!
I hope you can help me to create an activity diagram, which looks like this

The best solution I found is this:

@startuml
title Conditional - Activity Diagram
start
repeat :Check for config;
if (Config Available?) then (true)
else (no)
  :New Config?;
endif
:Load;
repeat while (Successful?) is (No) not (Yes)
stop
@enduml

and looks like this:

But this is not correct. The arrow Successful -no-> has to go to "new Config" and not "Start".


What is the correct syntax to create the activity diagram I want to have? ;)

Thanks for your help!

Best regards,
J.B

Comments

Hello J.B., and all,

Here is an attempt with `goto`, dummy label, and dummy action:

@startuml
title Conditional - Activity Diagram
start
:Check for config;
if (Config Available?) then (No)
  label nc
  :New Config?;
else (Yes)
  :<i>Goto Load...} 'dummy action
endif
:Load;
'repeat while (Successful?) is (No) not (Yes)
if (Successful?) then (Yes)
else (No)
  label dummylabel
  goto nc
endif
stop
@enduml

But that is not conclusive.
@PlantUML: for a `goto` improvement....

If that can help, (a little... )
Regards.

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Hello The-Lu,

thanks for your reply.

You have a good idea, however the result also doesn't look as I expected. I would even almost say that the graphics are not really beautiful either. But this is not your fault. I looks like it's just impossible to create a simple graph which looks ike this

So I hope that there will be an update to support such a feature in the next version of PlantUML! ;)

Many thanks in advance!

Best regards,
J.B.

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Hello J.B., and all,

For that you can use legacy Activity as:

@startuml
title Conditional - Activity Diagram
(*) --> "Check for config"
if "Config Available?" then 
  -->[Yes] "Load"
else 
  -->[No] "New Config?"
  -r-> "Load"
endif
if "Successful?" then
  -->[Yes] (*)
else 
  -->[No] "New Config?"
endif
@enduml

Regards.

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Super! Thank you! Looks much better!

I think I will use your proposal, even it's not 100% perfect ;)