Question
Colorable Data Transform and Activity steps?
What are your thoughts about having the ability to highlight / color-code groups of related steps within Data Transforms and Activities?
It often takes 3 steps to accomplish a goal, for example:
- Page-New
- Property-Set
- call XYZ
When you have multiple groups of steps, such as the above, at some point, say 3 groups, you need to decide whether to create a new Transform or Activity to prevent the code from being overly difficult to read and maintain.
Creating single-purpose, non-reusable rules, though, also increases code-maintenance complexity.
It takes a sharp eye to recognize when three steps can be treated as a single logical step."Preview" helps to some extent.
Suppose a developer could choose from multiple pastel colors that can be used as the background color for a Data Transform or Activity step?
Groupings of related code would immediately stand out.
Code comprehension and maintainability would be enhanced.
In Accessibility mode the background color could be spelled out.
Very good idea to color the group steps in Data transform or Activity