Grouped Movement of Parent and Child Nodes in Arena View

Solution Value Statement

Improves usability and efficiency in managing complex application topologies by allowing users to move parent nodes (e.g., environments) along with their associated child objects (e.g., images, repositories, access points) in a single action within the Arena view.

Proposed Solution

Enhance the Arena view interaction model to support:

• Grouped movement of nodes and their child objects.

• Visual indication of parent-child relationships during drag operations.

• Toggle to enable/disable grouped movement mode.

• Snap-to-grid or alignment tools for organizing large topologies.

• Performance optimization for rendering large node groups.

Customer Impact / Business Value

• SREs and Developers can organize application views more efficiently.

• Architects can visualize dependencies and relationships with clarity.

• Reduces time spent manually repositioning nodes.

• Improves clarity in large-scale environments with hundreds of components.

Pilot or Validation Context

• Pilot with customers managing >100 environments or applications.

• Validate with users of App360 and Arena view in large deployments.

• Use feedback from drag-and-drop interactions and layout persistence.

Key Functional Requirements

• Drag-and-drop grouped movement of parent and child nodes

• Toggle for enabling/disabling grouped movement

• Visual cues for node relationships during movement

• Layout persistence across sessions

• Performance optimization for large node sets

• Undo/redo support for layout changes

Metrics for Success

• Time saved in organizing Arena view layouts

• Reduction in manual repositioning actions

• User satisfaction with Arena usability

• Number of grouped movement interactions per session

• Layout persistence success rate

Roadmap & Feature Overlap Analysis

• Existing Epic(s):

  • ROJA-314: Resilience Posture and Trends Data Exploration

  • ROJA-397: Integration and Simplification of Concert and Concert Workflows

  • ROJA-466: Transition and Navigation Experience v1

  • ROJA-321: Resilience Measurement Aggregation

• Overlap Summary:

  • Arena view supports node visualization and filtering.

  • App360 and Workspace support grouping and metadata tagging.

  • Layout persistence and drag-and-drop are partially supported.

• Unmet Needs:

  • No current support for grouped movement of nodes.

  • No visual cues for parent-child relationships during drag.

  • No layout management tools for large topologies.

  • No undo/redo for layout changes.