Export Rete Network Visualization Graph

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| Bugzilla Link | 567602 |
| Status | UNCONFIRMED |
| Importance | P3 normal |
| Reported | Oct 05, 2020 07:43 EDT |
| Modified | Oct 07, 2020 04:57 EDT |
| Version | 2.3.2 |
| Reporter | Hans van der Laan |

Description

Hey,

As far as I can see, there is no way to export the rete networks from the Eclipse Rete Visualizer. This could be a handy feature.

The Eclipse Rete Visualizer has some difficulties lay-outing large network graphs orderly. Although one could spend more time improving and adding layout algorithms, there are many separate programs which sole purpose it is to visualize large and complex graphs. It would be great if users could exploit such programs to visualize large and complex rete networks. This would be possible if users could export the rete network.

Kind regards,

Hans

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By Hans van der Laan on Oct 06, 2020 02:04

A bit of context to this feature request.

I made this request because I had to debug a complex pattern. It took me quite a while to copy the network and create the visualization shown here: https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/1833185/#msg_1833185. This was necessary because I couldn't get an overview what was happening in the original image (shown here: i.imgur.com/AeivMkg.png)

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By Zoltan Ujhelyi on Oct 07, 2020 04:57

Thanks for the feedback. Doing a graphviz export shouldn't be too hard as Zest, the technology we are using for this visualization already has some built-in support for that. I don't know whether we will have time to look into this export capability in the short term, but as a feature request it makes a lot of sense to me.