Ability to spotlight a participant so that only activity to/from that participant remains

Question

I have a comprehensive MSD showing every interaction between 10 participants but many of the participants in the MSD do not interact with one another.  I want to show a view of the process from one participant's perspective.  The feature would spotlight a participant and all activity to/from that participant:

spotlight participant Bob as B

Consider allowing multiple participants to be spotlighted.  All spotlighted participants and their related activity and co-participants are included.  All unlinked participants and their activity are excluded.

Answer 1

Hi @smagnet99,

with `!pragma svginteractive true` you can select different participants and show the interactions in the svg output. E,g, open following link in a new window

plantuml.com/plantuml/svg/SoWkIImgAStDuL8iA4fCpqrKA2vBpymhIIrAJ2x9B4jLA2agJUNYSifFKj2rKt3CoKnELR1Io4ZDoSddueg8TC4KXV1qWU8X_humKUm601M019tydHGGXd8vfEQb01q40000

The corresponding source can be opened via following linked png image



BR Helmut

Comments

That is really cool and useful!  It almost gets me the feature that I want.

1. I want to be able to add the "spotlight" directive to the plantuml rather than having to select the spotlighted participants interactively
2. I want the unlinked participants to be eliminated.
3. I want the collaborators to the spotlighted participant to be rendered fully (not grayed out.