Is it possible to show the displayName text as label?

[paule96]

Hi Author,

this extension is super cool. But I use in my templates very often the tag displayname. This tag can contain a custom name. This will be interpreted for example by the vscode outline extension for ARM. It would be created if I can show this display names in the graph too.

[MaximRouiller]

It is also interpreted by the Visual Studio JSON Outline tool.

This is a must-have for anyone wanting to customize the name of the labels without having to change the name of the resources.

[benc-uk]

Interesting. I wasn't aware of this convention. Thanks!

Ok so if displayName or displayname is present in the tags list, it can take the place of the resources's name field.

That's pretty easy :)

[MaximRouiller]

It's definitely a "convention" and not in the spec. It's how people are using some extensions to clarify graphs. Let me see if I can grab an existing template, open it in Visual Studio and show you what is displayed.

[MaximRouiller]

Without :

With:

[MaximRouiller]

This is present in Visual Studio 2019 Preview and was available for a long time before. The fun part, it doesn't impact functionality as it is a totally opt-in scenario.

[benc-uk]

Added in https://github.com/benc-uk/armview-vscode/releases/tag/0.1.0

[paule96]

That was fast 👌

[benc-uk]

I was already making a lot of changes to support linked templates, this was easy to fit in by comparison 😛