Set an Element's Default Appearance

[Matt Thomas]

The Help system says
"To override the global appearance and define a default appearance for a specific element on all diagrams on which it is found, you use the Default Appearance dialog."

Access     Double-click element | Appearance | Default Appearance

OK, the "elements" I want to change the default line color on all diagrams are information flows. They are not selectable in the browser. I can right-click and select Appearance but this doesn't give the option to set default appearance.

[Eve]

Selecting Appearance from the connector context menu is identical to setting the default appearance of an element. Either one changes the colour it is displayed on any diagram it is shown on (unless it is overridden).

Are you actually wanting to override it so that every information flow created gets the specified colour?

[Matt Thomas]

Hi Simon

Are you actually wanting to override it so that every information flow created gets the specified colour?

Yes - that's entirely right. Is there a way?
Cheers
Matthew  

[Sunshine]

You can use menu Tools>Options>Standard Colour and change the connector line colour but it effects all lines. Alternatively you can change the colour and thickness of one line and save it as a style then apply style to the lines.
Hope that helps  

[Matt Thomas]

Thanks for your help - I was resistant to trying that approach because I just want to be able to select multiple lines (e.g. ctrl-click) and apply en-mass. However, ctrl-click on a line has another effect, so if there's no other way to do it I'll use styles (and enjoy the sunshine!  .

[Sunshine]

Yes unfortunately a limitation of Sparx EA that you can only select one connector at a time thus applying a colour and thickness to them on mass is not possible. May be its worth putting in a feature request.