Opened group does not transfer content acitivities from Neighbors view

Question

Unlike "normal" groups, Open Task Activity group does not transfer content activities when creating new document from Neighbors view. If this sentance does not seem inteligable, let me post screenshot with example diagram: "expanded_subprocess.graphmlz"

and the result is diagram wihtout content in Open Activity group:

 

Is this a bug, or is there some setting that will allow me to transfer the contents?

 

Thanks

Answer 1

Re:

Is this a bug, or is there some setting that will allow me to transfer the contents?

No, this is not a bug. Child nodes of a group node are not considered neighbors of the group (unless there is an edge that connects each child to its parent group). For this reason, childen are usually not displayed in the neighborhood view.

You could try collapsing your activity before selecting it. After converting the neighborhood view with the collapsed activity into a new document, you can open the collapsed activity in the new document.

Note, this approach does have side effects if one of your activity's children is connected to a node outside the activity. In this case, collapsing the activity will reassign the edge from the the child to the collapsed activity. And consequently, the node outside becomes a neighbor of the collapsed activity.

 

Selecting the children in addition to the activity does not work because the neighborhood view does not include edges connecting the selected elements.

Comments

Collapsing opened activity before selecting is the solution. Thanks!

Answer 2

Just after I posted, I realized I should try to shift-select content activities, and it partially works.

Partially because selected activities are arranged randomly: