[FR] Connect multiple nodes at once

[dentistfrankchen]

I found a feature that has been ignored for a long time.

Imagine you have a parent node, and several children nodes:

I hope I can select all chidren nodes, and connect them at once:

This is a feature that has been proposed for a long time, and posted in several posts:
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/connecting-multiple-canvas-nodes-at-once/70420
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-to-connect-two-canvas-nodes-in-obsidian-graph-view/78805

I think this should not be very technically challenging, so I hope maybe someone can fix this.

Thank you!

[dentistfrankchen]

I think this will not cause too much work.

This is what I have thought:

1. find all rightmost achor point of all selected cards;

2. Use a for loop or something like this to draw connection lines between the activated anchor point and the selected cards.

[dentistfrankchen]

I think if this technique will also solve #122 #135 , at least partly solve.
I think you can add a "multiple select" button to the ribbon, then the plugin can collect all the object of the selected items, then it can conduct operations.

Also, this can also introduce important technical support for creating midmaps. #21

[Developer-Mike]

Thank you for sharing your idea. First of all, I want to mention that the second forms link isn't related to the FR at all. And while I quite like the idea, I can't figure out how the user would control which node gets connected to the other ones. How should he control which node is the "main" node that connects to the others and what e.g. the direction of the edge should be. Feel free to share your ideas for dealing with those difficulties.