How to add an annotation to a partition in activity diagram

Question

Hi,

I don't know if this feature is implemented or not but anyway, this diagram shows the problem : 

@startuml
start
partition P{
:a;
:b;
note left : left
note right : right
} 
note right : this should be the right annotation partition
end
@enduml

server

This has an impact on the layout because the partition is getting bigger...

Is it possible to add an annotation to the partition?

thanks

Comments

Hello K., and all,

[Just for the record]

See similar issue or wanted feature here: 

• https://forum.plantuml.net/7615/put-note-to-left-right-partition-box-activity-diagram-inside

On the same topic of note on partition:

• https://forum.plantuml.net/6071/note-goes-out-the-partition
• https://forum.plantuml.net/5208/place-notes-next-to-the-boundary-partition-activity-diagram

and other on note:

• https://forum.plantuml.net/2398/is-it-possible-to-add-a-comment-on-top-of-a-activity-partition
• https://forum.plantuml.net/5105/notes-in-activity-diagrams
• https://forum.plantuml.net/9752/activity-beta-adding-note-to-if-condition

If that can help, for developing and testing...
Regards,
Th.

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thanks.

But Is it a bug or It's not implemented ?

The last post that highlights the issue is 5 years ago.

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Hello K, and all,

It is not implemented: in fact currently only inside note on partition/group is implemented...

(But this also looks like a bug) ... And all other not... 

If that can help,
Awaiting note outside partition/group...

Regards,
Th.

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For me it's a bug. I talk only about adding annotation to a partition.

If it's not implemented it should throw an exception Instead.

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Hello K, and all,

From:

• your minimal example
• and https://forum.plantuml.net/6071/note-goes-out-the-partition

Here is another issue (tested on V1.2024.0beta2):

@startuml
start
partition P{
note right : this note is missing
} 
note right : this should be the **outside** right annotation partition
@enduml

Regards,
Th.

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Do you think this is considered as an important feature ? ( I DO lol )

Annotating partitions ( and any container actually ) is an important feature when the diagram becomes  BIG.

Thanks

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Hello K, and all,

It is now a wanted feature for PlantUML team:

- Could you allow note outside (right or left of)) partition on Activity diagram?

Regards,
Th.

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Hi,

I did a bit of research on how plantuml works with notes.

https://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/png/bPHHQzj03CVVzIcqT8Ca6sDl1OT1qvJ2AAo5xMtiuM9VxMFsdV79sORnTz-TBuiktgKmFoH2-kalMHA-iIGwwfiQNhtUY_n7sPbU5pjJc-xZukh3z2o05DKIFnkI5fN6RKxgeEZtEzpLmbeKki2TQLgZfIQyKwBiH8FBDmVPMMNqShM2gGo0RMj5CA-KmJ2SrJ0Qdnolo6N71L_IpfIrlVIfscjiGYs4zYJqnJIIPGV8jXlmBDRocJ13jXyV8BlTuENeY4TvKGgbBnRvlnfNz_T-tDVN464FZo1r4HmmNi3bBvAT5dN0zZq1-jxQLehERyogGhu7_4IOLqANqgAehK6gv9G1Q9xn5jVhfJRO6gMTscgzviAJ5NQNQLSCnN4Xcoa2umYRU23f3RVE9qg9JyT_OPs90-3qp6uiN5PotuZv5DowtC6I89MFBeKmDxrl7TuUZ2fm47jBdSXfnEb2bXuXrKZJKsDNbwYxlXFJ9e_e2aOUkX_KDil-5aByMYcBZMpsiaDd2UrGGR8upUwVt4MgcGLBKMKA_AceGeUmJAI3an9cE7S5fbDbHSn4BcR8j1Zhi8kPlI4oJSp4Be1ntjAJu9kCkmkngBaKpL76kM0QZwFnUwNv40smFzZqaQPEyULFcyz8ddOG-tPA_-xTE--SJto7Y1aU-mj8_8QCn0wcmWgOEZcOuj4p5HnCZSoUpV5iaBD9fbfDfyJnLElfh3YUU9La5iTvr_m1SnRSk9--gVy0

The red nodes are poorly placed.

What I understood and please correct me if I am not correct on activity diagram we can't alias a container.

So I guess to be able to use 

• note left of 
• note right of 
• note top of 
• note bottom of

We need to alias containers.

another issue That I see in a  container annotation is that WHERE do we place the annotation ?

Indeed, the container can be BIG so left right top bottom can help for sure but will be not enough. Users will want to have better control of where it appears.

Does the Plantuml team is aware of Pikchr?

here is the grammar : https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/grammar.md

Plenty of good ideas out there. 

Hope it helps.

Kasra