Hello,

I have a diagram with custom node types that are derived from ShapeNode. Is it possible to load diagram back on the server side from json for the purpose of diagram exporting or saving?
I tried using DiagramView.FromRequest and DiagramView.FromJson methods. In case where diagram is consisted only out of ShapeNodes and no derived types, these work all right. But, when diagram is consisted of node types that are child types ShapeNode type, these methods produce an error.
Can you recommend what is the best approach for this?


Thanks,
Ana

Hello,

Thanks for your replay, the client-server transfer works now that I made converters for custom node types and registered both custom node types and converters (as in sample project).
I can do the export of the diagram without producing that error, but I have another issue now. The exported diagram doesn't display nodes with custom shapes( I defined few custom Shapes on client side by defining outlines and decorations and they display nicely on the diagram, but when I try exporting of the diagram these nodes don't show at all).
Is there way to resolve this?


Thank you very much,
Ana

Hello,

That works, if I define custom shapes ahead of FromJson call and then export, nodes with custom shapes appear.
Is it possible to set some additional options for decorations when defining custom shapes on the server side?
On the client side, I was able to to define some additional options like decorationPen or decorationBrush when defining custom shape. Is there something similar on the server side?
I tried to find a way using both ElementTemplate constructors and Visio-like formula constructors for shapes, but couldn't find a way to define decoration fill.


Thanks,
Ana