AMM Idea: Overlays - concept for renaming branches

[erikbosch]

Idea collected at AMM. A concept for renaming/moving branches and/or nodes would be useful

[nwesem]

hi @erikbosch would it be possible to get a bit more info on this one, too? maybe I can spend some time to add it. Would really appreciate it! Thank you

[erikbosch]

This was quite long time ago, but if I remember it correctly a use-case could be that you have an entity A.B.C (either a branch or signal). Now you want to use an overlay to instead call it A.D. Today this needs to be done in two steps, you need to add A.D copying whatever context exist in A.B.C, then you need to delete the original A.B.C node.

A possible solution could instead be something like below

A.D
  type: branch
  moved: A.B.C # Remove A.B.C and add it here instead