Force rank to be from left

[Marais]

This is more of a question than an actual bug. I'm using dagre with jointjs.
I looked at the dagre API, and I can't get the elements rank to be on the left as indicated by the picture.

Is it possible to do it in dagre?
What I have:

This is what I want:

[dcosson]

I have the same question, I'm using cytoscape-dagre.

Mine seems like a fairly obvious use case - I'm drawing a dependency graph of steps to complete a task, and I would like each step to show up in the rank of the soonest it can be started (so shifted left instead of right).

I can get it work manually by increasing the minlen property for any individual node. By traversing the output graph breadth-first and setting the minlen of every edge to something like max(rank of each parent of the source node) + 1 I think that should work. But is it possible to make a setting to do this automatically?

[xiaopow]

Did you guys manage to get this working?

[EmilStenstrom]

I think this is the same problem as this PR tries to solve: #271