Changes to one diagram affect other diagrams

[Thomas_Arnbjerg]

Hi all.

We have a problem with layouts in analysis diagrams .

First we've made one analysis diagram and layed out the elements.
When reusing these elements in another analysis diagram the layout of the first diagram changes. Has anyone seen this phenomena and is there a workaround?

(We use MySql as a share repository for the model)

 

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Exactly how does the first diagram change?  What are you doing in the second diagram?

Paolo

[Thomas_Arnbjerg]

We changed the element type of one of the elements.

[Frank Horn]

It's by design then. Changing an element's type is not a change on a diagram, but on the model (it's directly saved to the eap file or database), and if the new type requires another shape to be rendered, this will affect all diagrams containing it.

The data defining the diagram layout should not have changed though (I think EA saves the left and top position of shapes, connector bending points a.s.o.). When you change the element type back to the old one, all diagrams concerned should again look just like they did before.

If they don't, it's a bug. If they do, it's just the way EA works.