Azure Digital Twins Explorer Preview graph, fonts and error messages - How to work better

Question

Hi, i ask if there is a way to preserve twins position in twin graph of Azure Digital Twins Explorer Preview; it's really annoying every time i launch a query or create a twin or other operations to have as a result a graph that has overlapping relationships difficult to read so i have to relocate logically twins based on their relationships. Another consideration, out of the request, about the short twins names shown in ADT Explorer Preview that forces to analyze the properties of each twin in case of names that have the the same root to distinguish them. Finally other considerations about fonts used in output really very small and unreadable, i'm becoming old :-), and error messages that are truncated and are incomprehensible so i have to repeat the same operation with the output console to have a complete error message. I understand that ADT Explorer is in "preview mode" but i think it also could be improved in graphic and functional aspects. Thanks in advance for any suggestion to be able to work better. Guido

Answer 1

Hi @GuidoL Thank you for the valuable feedback you have provided on this on the Azure Digital Twin Explorer.

about the short twins names shown in ADT Explorer Preview

I see that displaying part of the name on the Twin can lead to confusions especially when they have the same initial pattern. Considering that the ID's can be up to 128-character length, the twin graph might be messy if we display the full name. Right now, the name of the Node displays up to 9 characters. I appreciate it if you can add more details on what might be a better approach that serves you better so that I can run this feedback by our product team.

fonts used in output really very small and unreadable. error messages are truncated and are incomprehensible and i have to repeat the same operation with the output console to have a complete error message

Thank you for your insights on this. I will take this feedback to the team and see if they can take action on this.

if there is a way to preserve twins position in twin graph of Azure Digital Twins Explorer Preview

ADT twin graph explorer has a center and zoom to fit options on the bottom let of the screen that should help you with rendering the graphs at the center of the explorer page. Please find the icons below

In addition to these settings, there is a choose layout option on top right corner which lets you choose different layouts on how the graphs should render. Please find the below image

With these settings on, the Twins graphs that are rendered on the explorer look as following.

Please let us know if the above feedback helps you with the formatting and layout of the twin graphs. Thank you.