Tooltips showing element id about bpmn-js HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi,

Thanks for creating an issue. I'd like to understand your use better. How would you use the ID? What is its purpose especially in a setup without the properties panel?

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Sometimes it is important to know the id of an element, in particular, when working with execution logs or when reviewing the xml. For example, in one of my projects (https://github.com/bpmn-os/bpmndoc) I create documentation for BPMN models that shows tDocumentation and tExtensionElements content of elements in the model. As not every model element is guaranteed to have a unique name, such information has to be linked to the element id.

In general I have 2 use cases:

1. in the BPMN viewer there is no possibility to see the element id (w/o properties panel) as it is not a graphical element. Hovering over the element can show a tooltip with the element id.

2. When model diagrams are distributed as svg, the svg can easily be embedded in other pages (in my particular case, a webpage automatically created by doxygen to explain features of BPMN model examples). A svg tooltip can allow reviewing the element ids in such scenarios.

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@rajgoel The technical ID is only important for a sub-set of our use-cases and will likely confuse non-technical folks. The other issue with tooltips is that you cannot copy them, hence their use is severely limited.

Long story short I think we'd want to make this pluggable (so you can add the tooltip in use-cases relevant to you). We don't want to have this at the core. Could be worth to check if a community contribution already exists for that.

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I agree, for users simply modelling diagrams, showing the element id as default might be confusing. I guess adding the titles on export (as shown above) is the way to go then.

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