Visual Overview – Can I show a trend graph based on element name instead of ID

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Hi Dojo,

We want to create an overview of all Augmented Operations that we support. Therefore we have links to elements for which we show a trend graph in a popup.

The thing is that those elements are recreated every day (same name, different element ID) so that we can control the pattern and showcase it. Based on the documentation we can only use IDs to show a trend graph. Is there a workaround that I can use?

Jens Vandewalle [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Selected answer as best 6th September 2022

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Hi Jens,

I see we currently only support an element reference through its ID.

The following is a general tip when using the Visual Overview and is not limited to this use case. Whenever you want to use an ID but you have the name instead for an element, view or service:

  • Create a grouped shape and set the value of the Element/View shape data to the name.

  • Create a child shape inside that group you can use the [this elementID] placeholder. Now also set the ForcePropertyFromParent option so it uses the element of the parent rather than the element to which the Visual Overview might be assigned to.
  • This should result to

Jens Vandewalle [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Selected answer as best 6th September 2022