Please allow to set sequence diagram groups color to transparent

Question

Please allow to set sequence diagram boxes color to transparent, currently skinparam SequenceGroupBodyBackGroundColor transparent doesn't work.

Answer 1

Sorry, there are been some changes here (see http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/qa/?qa=5639/grouping-messages-should-be-on-top-level )

With last beta (20)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/koo42q3d9gxw288/plantuml.jar?dl=0

You can now have transparent for SequenceGroupBodyBackgroundColor :

@startuml
skinparam SequenceGroupBodyBackGroundColor transparent

 box "A" #DD55DD
participant user
end box

 box "B" #55CCDD
participant device
end box

 user->device: do something
group if condition 1
device->user: done
end
@enduml

You can also add transparent like this:

@startuml
box "A" #DD55DD
participant user
end box
 
box "B" #55CCDD
participant device
end box
 
user->device: do something
group #transparent if condition 1
device->user: done
end
@enduml

Comments

Thanks it is OK

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That should work! thank you!

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Could you tell when this will be in the release? For ex, I see the latest eclipse plugin still does not support this

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It's in last release of PlantUML.
Not sure when the Eclipse team will upgrade. You can contact them :-)