Moving objects - saving a diagram's state

[roates]

Sometimes when doing a diagram - particularly a diagram with a lot of objects, I need to rearrange the objects to make it all fit and still be readable.

I'm currently creating a custom diagram using analysis objects to produce a business object model. The auto layout button doesn't help me - it just rearranges everting so the diagram looks terrible - objects on top of each other - strange layout etc... so, I do it all manually. Sometimes I'd like to be able to save the diagram at various stages so as I can roll be to a particular layout, especially if I muck things up.

Is there any feature in EA that may help me do this at the moment? If not, would you consider putting one in?

regards,

Russell Oates

[gsparks]

Hi,

There is nothing there at the moment - but it would not be too hard to add the following:

1. Context menu or hotkey option to 'snapshot' current layout
2. Layout saved to memory (not disk) with a default name of some sort (UseCaseDiagram:Save001) or similar
3. Layout includes spatial positioning of all elements in diagram at that time
4. Context menu to restore layout - select from list for current diagram - all elements in snapshot and in current diagram will be positioned as they were for snapshot
5. When EA exits the current snapshots are lost
6. Multiple users cannot share snapshots

This is the simple implementation ... lets you do some experimenting and etc. with a quick resotre to a previous condition. Over time the snapshots could be written to dick - although I dont know how useful this would be.

Let me know what you think,

Geoff Sparks