Modify Associations Pane: affect and meaning of "Visible" check box

[TóthRóbert]

I am trying to understand and test the effect and meaning of the marker highlighted as yellow in the screenshot below.

This is the visibility of... ? what? 
What is the effect of this parameter?
how can a "junction object" or "edge object" be "visible" at all

(I know it can be visible on a network diagram, and I know that the network trace can return it, as a result) but I don't understand what this checkbox affects.

Thanks if anyone has an answer

[RobertKrisher · Accepted solution]

@TóthRóbert  The visible option is used when calculating the association status of a feature or object. Specifically, is used to differentiate visible or hidden content. While this works great with features where we can use this status in display filters to hide content in your containers, as you noted it has much less meaning when applied to non-spatial objects. However, as you noted, you could use this value in network diagrams if you wanted to create some special diagrams that leveraged this value to hide non-spatial objects in your diagrams.