I have been recreating the network atlas maps for my company in orion maps and there are a list of features that are missing or unavailable that are making it very hard to recreate/keep the functionality of network atlas. I did a bit of research on all of these topics and couldn't find any how-tos or information on doing them.
Design:
Manually changing the color palate for links. You can change the individual color of the line, but it would be good to be able to change the color palate scheme to manual colors other than "Pastel" or not.
The ability to create vertices on lines for custom dragging of links. This helps the visual design of keeping grouped links together, or showing that some links go through a "cloud" (ISP, AWS etc)
Functionality:
The ability to create a link that goes to a ghost node. A end mapped and tracked for traffic purposes, but Z end left blank. This would be useful in tracking ISP links or other edge links where you only have visibility into a single side of that link.
The ability to create hyperlinks from one map to another map. Custom objects with custom hyperlinks.
The ability to pseudo-code SQL queries for particular nodes. Being able to pull the % utilization or the input or output rate via a text field, or even of a node that you drag out and using it as a label is something that was available in Atlas but is not available in O-Maps.
Edit: Adding a feature to be able to hide dependency lines, among other lines if necessary. They bloat the map and are unable to be deleted or hidden as far as I'm aware.
Edit: Adding multiple links to a node for a NOCView like real time monitoring map. Currently all links are "bundled" into a single connection line. While it may save space, it does not give the granularity you would need for a NOC view when redundant links are in place (which is a network standard).
Edit Adding an example of the same map designed in Atlas versus Orion Maps, exemplifying the difference between the functionality and design. The Orion Maps version has color issues, too much information bloat with the values, and not enough information via line coloring. In case you have trouble differentiating, the purple lines are Atlas, the pastel green lines are Orion Maps.
https://imgur.com/a/z0dUzfI
The majority of these are "small" feature requests and are things that were present in Network Atlas. While they don't necessarily break functionality by not having them, it makes network atlas a superior tool in terms of map design capability. The fact that these features are not in the O-Maps release while the Atlas is "deprecated, to be removed in a future release" is quite frankly astonishing.
