As a Configuration User, I would like to see a visual representation of an Environment's derivative chain #47
Description
Purpose
As a Configuration User, it would be useful when consulting an Environment's metadata to have a visual representation of an Environment's position in a derivative chain: that is, some kind of programmatically-created graph of the base Environment(s) the currently-viewed Environment was built on, and/or any additional Environment(s) that have been built based on the currently-viewed Environment.
(It may also be useful to have some representation of Software and/or Content resources associated with any or all of these Environments; and/or to traverse to the Details page(s) of the other listed Environments via this graph)
Such a visual representation could assist with making more informed configuration decisions around deletion of Environments or creation of new Environments, essentially serving as a new discovery pathway for closely-related Environments.
Gap Analysis
This is somewhat similar to the information provided in the History tab in current EAASI versions but a visual/tree representation would be less linear and more comprehensively allow the user to traverse the branching relationship between Environments. The options for free-text search and faceting discovery on the Explore/My Resources page may imply connections between particular Environments but do not make base/derivative relationships explicit.