Diagramming message contexts (and other things)

[Cantor, Scott]

On 2/27/13 6:27 PM, "Brent Putman" <putmanb at georgetown.edu> wrote:

>It may also have some applicability for quickly generating
>visualizations of Webflow flows, if there isn't something better that is
>native to Webflow. I think Scott mentioned wanting something like this
>at the F2F. Haven't looked let, but I was wondering if there was perhaps
>a tool that would take as input a Webflow flow definition file, parse it
>and generate a DOT language output, which could then be rendered.

I was actually asking if there was a visual development tool for
constructing flows, but I can see that being able to generate diagrams
would be helpful to people.

>There is apparently also a Graphviz Confluence plugin [3], which seems
>to do some cool stuff.  I saw in there that they actually have macros
>for doing flowcharts, which might work for easily documenting Webflows.
>It's commercial, though, and a bit pricey.

I think Chad was considering it for the design documentation and decided
against it, but that might have been just the cost. If we can generate
PNGs or whatever, that's probably fine.

-- Scott