[Feature request]: Being able to label selected nodes

[louisgreiner]

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Functionality

It would be super powerful to be able to add a label to all selected nodes. This way, user could for instance set "geographical" tags, setting "geographical areas" in the network graphic.

What I propose is to change to purpose of this button, which currently opens the filters menu (which can be already opened using the top left button). This button could be used to propose to add a filter to all selected objects: selected nodes or selected trainrun(s).

What do you think @aiAdrian @maelysLeratRosso?

Link to design proposal file

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[aiAdrian]

Thanks for the feature requests. Adding filterable labels to all selected nodes would indeed be very powerful.

I personally wouldn’t change the filtering button. Once the filter is active (filter button: red), we could temporarily remove all filters to make all nodes and train runs visible. When the user presses Ctrl + A, they can multi-select all nodes and then add a label to all of them. Alternatively, with the same Ctrl + A, they only select what is currently visible (all filtered nodes).

Therefore, I think we should introduce a new object. When multiple nodes are selected, the "edit" button to the right of the node is no longer useful in its current form. At the moment, it behaves as before, but we could repurpose this button to open a new dialog for batch editing nodes—allowing users to add or remove labels across all selected nodes.

[louisgreiner]

That's a brilliant idea, I like it. And re-use to dialog with Filterable Labels and Haltezeiten is very good too.

That is actually no a very good first issue, even tho I think this might be not so difficult.

We may need to precise what labels are displayed in the "batch" view, if only the labels that are shared by all the selected nodes (I prefer this option) or more