Formatting of repeat loops spread trough several swimlanes

Question

Is there any way of having the if condition of a repeat loop in the same swimlane as the preceding node, and not in the swimline where the loop was defined?

This is my activity diagram, it looks a little bit strange:

@startuml

|Author|
Start
repeat
repeat
if (New document?) then (yes)
:Create;
else (no)
:Update;
endif
->Document Draft;

|Reviewer|
:Review Document;
repeat while (Document agreed?)
->Document Reviewed;

|Approver|
:Approve Document --> Update;
repeat while (Document approved?)
->Document Verified;

|Owner|
:Archive;
->Document Archived;
stop

@enduml

Answer 1

This was more difficult to implement that we have initially though, but here is a beta version that should work with your example: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13064071/plantuml.jar

Tell us what if it's OK for you !

Comments

It works, thank you!

If I can have now an additional question, as for the sake of clarity it would be really nice I could  have a yes/no indication near the if box of the if statement, i.e. (repeat loop taken for the on-line documentation)

repeat while (more data?) (yes, no)

Where yes and no are the optional text to be put near the if condition for a true and a false result.

And tnx again for your nice work.

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This is not very documented (because we are not 100% satisfied by the syntax), but you can have:

start
repeat
  :read data;
  :generate diagrams;
repeat while (more data?) is (yes) not (no)
stop

http://plantuml.com/plantuml/uml/BSfB2e0m30N0VK_nbkqLxCAp1Fge1ViX2OYt5yNbm9YBUb0kYWTWKqf14PVygd9GnOdIfAfqot_5TRIJY7qglxudD4EyQGbZEkAOAPZFzG00

Is this what you are expecting ?

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Yes, that's what I was looking for.

Maybe the syntax could be simply

repeat while (more data?, yes, no)

->

repeat while [([ifbox_text][,true_text][,false_text])]

And for the repeat statement i.e.

repeat (repeat loop starts here)

->

repeat [(repeat_initial_text)]

Repeat_initial_text is as on optional text be put inside the object at the beginning of the loop.

Tnx for your valuable work.