Hi Anna,

The outermost layout will see that container as a single node with three links, so it won't try to reorder nodes from adjacent layer to match children. If you'll have at most one container per layer, an option might be to first arrange the diagram without containers, and then add containers and move the already arranged child nodes to them.

Regards,
Slavcho

We haven't had such plans; we'll have it in mind for next releases. Arranging while trying to preserve alignments on multiple nested levels will make the layout code much more complex than it already is though, so it will take some months to code. For short term you might look for other solutions, such as not letting links from child nodes go outside their container - link directly from / to the container instead, and associate links with child nodes by matching colors or labels. Alternatively if your child nodes always take a single column, it could be easy enough to sort the column after the layout to reduce link crossings.

Regards,
Slavcho