Labels moving around by themself

[Kristofer]

I have a very annoying problem when working with information flow diagrams; the connector labels are moving by themself!

When I create the diagram I position the connector labels (the one showing the conveyed information items and the stereotype label). Everything looks fine, I save, store as image, and close the diagram. At some other point I open the diagram again, and the labels are somewhere else, meaning I have to spend time positioning them again (and again the next time I open the diagram).

I have 30+ information flow diagrams, and when we add/remove a conveyed item, all diagrams showing this connector need to be re-published so they are consistent. This means...I have to open all diagrams and re-position the labels and save to image manually.

The labels also change size. If we have 10 conveyed items on a connector we cannot always have them all on one line, so we increase the height. When the diagrams is opened at a later point, the size of the label can be something else (but not all on one line).

This does not happen all the time when opening the diagram. Sometimes the labels stay where they should, and sometimes they move. I have not been able to find out the cause. "It just happens".

I emailed Sparx about this, but haven't got any answer so I wonder if someone else have experienced this and have a solution. This is very time consuming.

Using EA 13.0.1309.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Hi Kristofer,

I think we've reported an analogous problem with shape labels.  We found that "reloading" the diagram, would move the labels to another location.  It was consistently wrong (better than inconsistently wrong  )

I think Sparx conceded it was a bug.  You can find it by searching the forum.

Paolo

[Kristofer]

I found the post in the forum, but I don't think they are related.

I have to keep an eye on the diagrams and see if I cant find any pattern that causes the change.