Azure Data Factory Updated Pipeline Designer

boondawgy we agree with your feedback, and the experience has been updated accordingly!

Regarding feature #1:  My feedback would be to only show the 4 output boxes when the activity is actively selected.  Otherwise hide them.  Adding all 4 boxes adds unnecessary visual noise.  The color of the lines indicate which of the 4 types so it's easy to see how things are flowing.  And if you needed to, click the activity and it will show the four boxes and which one it's tied to.   Hopefully I communicated that well enough. 

I've liked the UI changes so far. I do find the being able to see inside the container and click on the objects doesn't work always like expected, so just always go to Edit, and would prefer it be the default behavior.

I wanted to comment back to GregObleshchuk - I disagree they should raise the 40 activity limit. It does take some getting used to coming from SSIS, but it makes you be much more intentional about your design and more functional and idempotent. For example, you can't scope variables or do things like If inside ForEach, so it forces you to have parent-child pipelines and think about a pipeline as one discrete activity. I think for data engineers that is better and similar to the way the rest of the industry is. I hope they keep 40, it seems arbitrary, but I'd almost be for fewer, I have  double digit activities in a pipeline, I'm doing something wrong.

Stefan_Svarvare the problems you described should not be related to the recent pipeline designer changes. Please create a support ticket from Azure portal, our support team will help you out. 

Hi

It seams that the new release of ADF is breaking some things in our deployments.
We are using BimlFlex to build our ADF ETL logic to load Snowflake data warehouse.

Problem1: If we  deploy a part of our solution with ARM templates and do not deploy all parts we get problems that storage container SAS keys will be corrupt in some pipelines that was not deployed the same day.
Problem2: If a Linked Service is refreshed by the ARM deployment manually created pipelines that uses the same LS get corrupted as the LS sink parameter references are lost.

This has cooccurred sins 5 october when I noticed the latest update of the ADF GUI.

Thulasheeram thank you for your feedback. for your ask regarding the 'post-copy script', have you checked the Script activity which allows you 

Thank you for new user friendly access. This 8s really a awesome update. Can we have a post-copy script option like pre-copy script in copy activity sink section. So that it will help to perform the post action on data after the data ingestion into sink.

Thank you for the new UI updates to ADF. Looks great! Are there any plans to be able to add comments directly on the canvas as we can do in SSIS? Thanks.

haochen Thats good to hear, I'm sure a heap of devs have complained about it.  It's good to know it's on the list and has a high priority, I hadn't heard that it was on the list before (not sure if there is a list of items upcoming changes for ADF and when they will be rolled out) but I know it has been discussed in forums for a long time now.

GregObleshchuk , we are well aware of the 40 activity limit and the pain it causes ADF customers. It’s pretty high in our priority list to lift this limit.