A container view shows relationships to the containers inside the scoped software system only I'm afraid ... there's no way to show relationships to/from the s2 box.

@simonbrowndotje Do you have advices about this ?

In a more slightly more complex example, I can have the following model :

workspace {
 !identifiers hierarchical
 model {
 user = person "User"
 s1 = softwareSystem "s1" {
 c1 = container "c1"
 }
 s2 = softwareSystem "s2" {
 public_api = container "api"
 c2 = container "c2"
 db = container "db"
 }
 user -> s1
 s1.c1 -> s2.db
 s1.c1 -> s2.c2
 }
 views {
 container s1 {
 include *
 autoLayout
 }
 container s2 {
 include *
 autoLayout
 }
 }
}

The rendered views :

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In both rendered views, I can see that systems s1 and s2 are connected to each other but I have no idea how.

In this example, I would prefer that s1 use s2 public api instead of internal containers like a direct connection to the db. But this information in not visible in the views si I might miss this point during an architecture review for example.

How do you handle these use case ?

Note that I like the current view as it allow to a quick understanding of the system used but sometimes would like to have more details 😄

I just stumble on this issue #358 that is talking about something similar.

By addind this view, I can se all relationships from s1 containers, it works great

container s1 "x" {
 include element.parent==s1
 include "element.parent==s2 && element==s1.c1->"
 autolayout lr
}

And I see that is documented here : https://docs.structurizr.com/dsl/cookbook/container-view-multiple-software-systems/

I just had to search a little more 😄