Skinparam rectangle not working in Activity beta

Question

Hi,

in http://forum.plantuml.net/3478/how-to-style-loops-and-partitions-in-activity-beta-diagram?show=3529 it was implemented that on could use rectangle in Activity beta. I thought for asking for a Action like shape for grouping. But this could easily be archived with formatting rectangle which would give further possibilies to the user. Therefore I ask for the support of formatting rectangles in Activity beta.

Example code:

@startuml
skinparam  rectangle {
    RoundCorner<<action>> 25
    BackgroundColor<<action>> LemonChiffon
    BorderColor<<action>> FireBrick
}
hide stereotype
rectangle <<action>> outerAction {
:innerAction;
}
@enduml

The support of stereotypes would allow to format rectangles representing objects differently from those representing actions.

Version used: 1.2018.11

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Ok, so let's start to add stereotype support in Beta Activity Diagram.

With last beta version http://beta.plantuml.net/plantuml.jar you can have:

@startuml
skinparam  rectangle {
    RoundCorner<<action>> 25
    BackgroundColor<<action>> blue
    BorderColor<<action>> red
}
skinparam  rectangle {
    RoundCorner 10
    BackgroundColor yellow
    BorderColor green
}
rectangle outerAction1 <<action>> {
:innerAction1;
}
rectangle outerAction2 {
:innerAction2;
}
@enduml

Is this what you are looking for ?

Comments

Yes, fantastic. Didn't expect it to be implement that fast.

Thanks a lot.

One comment:
It is not needed to add
hide stereotype

This differs from the class diagram. Although I am fine with it, it feels inconsistent. Is this intended behavior?