Author Topic: Drag and drop as "link" creates a new blank diagram (Read 7423 times)

Phillimo · « **on:** April 19, 2016, 02:34:38 am »

Scenario:

Drag and drop Business Process A (From Package A) as a link on Diagram B (Package B) and a new blank diagram appears under Package A.

The linked element does not link to the original one we dropped, instead it links to the newly created empty diagram.

Is this a bug? We have been dropping business process diagrams as links for a while and never encountered this issue. We need to reference the same business process diagram in many scenarios, so it would be a shame if the feature did not work.

Thanks, Sam.

Geert Bellekens · « **Reply #1 on:** April 19, 2016, 03:32:40 am »

Sam,

Are you dropping the diagram or the Business Process as a link?
If Business Process, which kind? BPMN1.0, BPMN2.0, EA's own business processes?

Do you actually see the dialog giving you the options to drop as link/instance?

Geert

Zvolensky · « **Reply #2 on:** April 19, 2016, 01:41:52 pm »

Hello
I work with Phillimo...

The business process type is BPMN2.0.
Dropping it as a link on an empty Business Process type diagram
When dropping, the dialog appears and we are using the Drop as Link option
This is happening not only on a shared repository (MSSQL) but also on a local file.\
I'm using EA 12.1 build 1229, Phillimo 1228 i think.

Thx.
Maros

Geert Bellekens · « **Reply #3 on:** April 19, 2016, 02:06:53 pm »

No, I've never seen this type of behavior. Dropping something as link should never create a new diagram I think.
Does this happen on all business processes, or just on some?

There are a couple of things you can try:

- Reset BPMN prompts (a button somewhere in the options)
- Run a Project Integrity Check (Shift-F9) and fix all errors

Geert

Zvolensky · « **Reply #4 on:** April 19, 2016, 02:14:48 pm »

Hello
Yes, it's strange
here is the video

https://youtu.be/0U6AvrQ5684

Zvolensky · « **Reply #5 on:** April 19, 2016, 02:51:13 pm »

Hello
reset prompts and integrity check (no issues found) did not helped. :-(
any other idea?

VKN · « **Reply #6 on:** April 19, 2016, 03:07:36 pm »

I can reproduce it.
You may want to submit a bug report.

Geert Bellekens · « **Reply #7 on:** April 19, 2016, 09:57:06 pm »

Try turning off all MDG's and add-ins except for the the standard EA ones and BPMN 2.0

Geert

Zvolensky · « **Reply #8 on:** April 20, 2016, 01:52:28 pm »

Hello
No joy, turned off all extensions and all add ins, restarted Sparx, only BPMN2 was what was left and it did not helped.

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