Display all relations from/to the software system on container views

[emredaglikfz]

We want to display all relations from/to the software system s2 on the container view of s2. But on this view, we can only see the relations from/to containers of s2.

Is it possible to show all relations from/to the software system s2 on container views?

Thanks for your help 🙏

workspace {
    model {
        user = person "User"

        s1 = softwareSystem "s1" {
            c1 = container "c1"
        }

        s2 = softwareSystem "s2" {
            c2 = container "c2"
        }

        s1 -> s2
        // Or:
        c1 -> s2
        // Or:
        user -> s2
    }

    views {
        container s2 {
            include *
            autoLayout
        }
    }
}

The result is:

[simonbrowndotje]

A container view shows relationships to the containers inside the scoped software system only I'm afraid ... there's no way to show relationships to/from the s2 box.

[quentinproust]

@simonbrowndotje Do you have advices about this ?

In a more slightly more complex example, I can have the following model :

workspace {
    !identifiers hierarchical
    model {
        user = person "User"

        s1 = softwareSystem "s1" {
            c1 = container "c1"
        }

        s2 = softwareSystem "s2" {
            public_api = container "api"
            c2 = container "c2"
            db = container "db"
        }

        user -> s1
        s1.c1 -> s2.db
        s1.c1 -> s2.c2
    }

    views {
        container s1 {
            include *
            autoLayout
        }
        container s2 {
            include *
            autoLayout
        }
    }
}

The rendered views :

In both rendered views, I can see that systems s1 and s2 are connected to each other but I have no idea how.

In this example, I would prefer that s1 use s2 public api instead of internal containers like a direct connection to the db. But this information in not visible in the views si I might miss this point during an architecture review for example.

How do you handle these use case ?

Note that I like the current view as it allow to a quick understanding of the system used but sometimes would like to have more details 😄

[quentinproust]

I just stumble on this issue #358 that is talking about something similar.

By addind this view, I can se all relationships from s1 containers, it works great

container s1 "x" {
    include element.parent==s1
    include "element.parent==s2 && element==s1.c1->"
    autolayout lr
}

And I see that is documented here : https://docs.structurizr.com/dsl/cookbook/container-view-multiple-software-systems/

I just had to search a little more 😄

[chipbite]

Good thread. Maybe mark this as an answer?