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The property editor of each activity on the BPEL canvas shows the properties associated with the activity. It would be great if we show the correlations defined(or associated with) for the activity. The snapshot shows that the reply is highlighted but the correlations are not displayed in the property editor. To see the correlations, user needs to double-click the activity, and then go to the correlations tab of the launched window.
Created attachment 38738 [details] snap shot that shows the picture described in the issue
Nikita, please evaluate it. I prefer to mark it as enhancement and implement in the next release.
The reason why the correlation aren't shown in the property sheet is that it's not a property of the reply entity, but rather separate related entity. And they have relation cardinality one-to-many. I can suggest resolving questions: -- what should be shown as a value of the property in the property sheet? -- Does it worth to make second dialog for the sake of reduction of steps to achieve the correlations from 2 to 1? Now the user has to call the Property dialog and switch to secon tab.
The correlations also are visible in the Navigator view as subnodes. I think it's the best way to show them.
BTW, I've note some difference in terms. It seems we call as "Property Sheet" the thing which is called "Property Editor" here.
in the navigator view th correlation nodes are not context specific. Are they? I want to see what correlations i used on a specific activity without too many clicks. In some sense, to view correlations they give the impression that they are hidden and no quick way to see them. your property editor second tab sounds better. I also have the following view, as a user i don't care if it is the attribute of a activity that is being shown or something else in the property editor as long as it is relevant. This argument you gave the property editor is for attributes of the activity seems to come from more of a technical reason than usability. As a user i want to see all the information related to an activity as easily as possible. P4 priority is ok.