Support for Annotations on Pipeline Builder

[deank]

Per title, is there any support for adding notes or annotations on Pipeline builder?

[lrhyne]

Yes! You can add a description to each node - or have AIP generate a description based on the transform boards in that node - and then that description will show when you hover over the node in the overview graph.

There are two other ways (that I know of) to add some structure to your Pipeline that might be helpful:

1. You can add Folders in the “Pipeline file view” view of the pipeline. It’s easier to organize if you first create a new folder, then select nodes one the graph and then drag them in the file tree into the folder. This mostly helps because you can then quickly jump to a specific region of a complex graph based on the folder titles, or use the folder level show/hide to quickly narrow in on the relevant nodes.
   

   
   
   
   

2. You can color the nodes of your graph (right click a single or group of selected nodes and choose “Color nodes” then pick a color and name. This will create a legend for your pipeline and let you “Collapse Colors” which does what it says on the tin and can greatly reduce the complexity of when working on a big pipeline.

[deank]

Thank you! Very helpful.