Flow vs add functionality of components

Hello Ralph,
thanks for your quick response. Your answer might be correct for this scenario. I just wanted to keep the scenario simple in my question. But as you said what happens if we changing the order or using another (third) stream.

So, we just flow the same component to another stream s3. Then we have following scenario:
- Create a new component in RWS
- Deliver (flow) the component from RWS to S1
- Add the same component (initial baseline) with the add button to S2
(new step) - Deliver (flow) the component from RWS to S3
- Remove the component in RWS

Now we get the following result when changing the flow targets:
Step 1. Outgoing (-)  to S1  (Flowing from RWS to S1)
Step 2. Incoming (+) from S2  (Flowing from RWS to S2)
Step 3. Outgoing (-)  to S3  (Flowing from RWS to S3)

So, as you said in your answer I will expect to get another incoming (+) in case 3.

The last operation you did on the RWS was a remove component. So your repository workspace has changed with respect to S3 and the change is removal of a component. So you have the option of removing it from the stream as well, and not an incoming addition. It is fairly logical that it is implemented that way. If someone else adds a component to a stream and you flow with it you see it incomoing. If you have less than the stream it is incoming. If you have more than the stream it is outgoing.

But there is no long term history on RWS or stream that keeps track of component additions and removals, as far as I know. You can't see it in any history. A history is only component based anyway.

Hello Ralph,
thanks again, but just to clarify. I have flowed and added the component on the different streams on my own. I agree with you when someone else adds a new component to a stream then I might see it as incoming addition. But in my case it's always the same component on three different streams. For me the behaviour getting two different results when changing the flows between the three streams (having exactly the same component) is confusing. I have just removed the component in my RWS without a deliver and now the result depends on which stream I flow.

    ...my understanding is that if the component has been deleted from the workspace and the date of the removal of the component from the workspace is later than the date of the addition of the component to the stream, then it is treated as an outgoing deletion ... otherwise it is treated as an incoming addition.