Newbie - Selecting Elements and moving them

[Guy Manning]

Hi this may be a bit of a silly one ...but I am having trouble moving elements

I have an activity diagram, with swimlanes, but all the elements within the lane are too low and I want to drag them up a bit (within lane)

As there are quite a few, I thought I would CntrlA and then drag, but this then includes the swimlanes

If I want to just select the all the actual elements (non-lane) and drag is there a quick way to select and move these without having to Shift / Click on each one?
 

[Geert Bellekens]

You should be able to make the swimlanes (ActivityPartitions?) non selectable.
Right click on the element and uncheck "Selectable"
Then it will not be selected anymore and you can move the rest.

You can also try ALT-DRAG on a diagram. That does cool things as well.

Geert

[Guy Manning]

Thanks!

[AndyJ]

Or select-all (Ctrl-A) then de-select the lane, by holding down the control key and clicking into empty space within the lane.



Andy

[Geert Bellekens]

Ctrl-Click to deselect doesn't alsways work.
I'm still not sure when it works and when it doesn't. :-/

Geert

[AndyJ]

Ctrl-Click to deselect doesn't alsways work.
I'm still not sure when it works and when it doesn't. :-/

Geert

I think that this may occur when something transparent is in the foreground...

Right-click on the offending element and choosing "Z Order" then "send to bottom" seems to take away that kind of behaviour for me.

Andy