[Feature Request] Element filtering on a View

[RaimondB]

I often run into the situation that I need similar views. E.g. view A will have full details (nested concepts etc.), view B will only show the high level concepts.
Or I want a view including all kinds of relationships, and another version that is the same, but without e.g. data flows.
Or there is a bunch of flows between application components that you want to visualizes, but you want to be able to show 1 functional flow at a time when presenting a view.

Currently this means duplicating views, and keeping them synchronized manually. Or I could automate the syncing using some jArchi, but this is also a bit of a hack :-)

The ideal solution would be what a lot of other drawing tools are also offering (e.g. Draw.io, Visio, Sparx Enterprise Architect) being the following:

• The ability to tag element and relationships on a view with a configurable value
• The ability to hide visually, or grey out the visual objects that conform to a certain filtercriterium.
  • E.g. hide everything tagged as "Layer X"
  • E.g. show only the "Base Layer" and "Flow 1"