v15.2 – "Concise Navigation" - when returning from diagram...

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Apart from issues reported elsewhere, I find "Concise Navigation" quite useful.  However, when returning from a diagram that you have "dipped into", EA needs to return to the point (in the original diagram) you left!  Often the original diagram can be quite large (especially when using the less than optimal standard layout feature which tends to spread items "wide" not "deep").  Consequently, if you left the original diagram on page 3 it is very inefficient to return to page 1 and then have to navigate back to page 3.  The current behaviour seems to be counter to the (implied) concept of "Concise Navigation".

Thoughts?
Reported,
Paolo

[Uffe]

I agree.

Web browsers do it that way: if you scroll down a bit on a page, click a link (opening in the same tab), then hit the back button, the browser shows the first page scrolled to the same point where you left it.

In addition, the selection state should be restored when backing up to a previous diagram (unless non-selectable). In 15.0.1512 at least, when you return to a previous diagram nothing is selected -- even though you had to select the link element to navigate to the sub-diagram. (Double-clicking the element selects it.)

In fact if you don't use concise navigation, the selection in the first diagram is retained when the sub-diagram is opened: if you go back to look at the first diagram in its own tab, the link element is still selected. So the current behaviour is inconsistent between concise and non-concise (verbose? circumlocutious?) navigation.

I have a sneaky suspicion that under concise navigation, the first diagram is not kept open internally but in fact closed and then reopened when you hit the back arrow. That would explain both these behaviours.


/Uffe