Discarded Changes

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I'm working on a diagram (Activity since I'm a low-level kinda guy) and I'm making changes.  Then I select an Activity Relationship I'd like to add to the diagram.  Select an element, drag to another element, and get the "this is not UML compliant" error box.

Okay, no problem, I'm still getting the hang of this.  Obviously I'm going about it the wrong way, I'll take a different approach.

But hold on!  After I click "Okay" on the error box, my diagram is reset to my last save point! All the changes I've made since then have been completely discarded! Lost with no chance to recover!  Oh noes!

Obviously I won't run into this issue when I stop trying to make invalid diagrams, but even still this is fairly awful behaviour.  I've always got my left hand on the Ctrl-S so that I lose as little as possible (hopefully nothing) when I accidentally try to do something invalid.

Is there some configuration change I can make to reduce the craptacularity of this?

Thanks,
J

[bioform]

Are you working with the Beta or 7.1 release?

[«Midnight»]

Open the Tools | Options | Diagram dialog and clear the Strict UML Syntax box.

This won't prevent EA from trashing your changes, but it will prevent EA from getting you into the situation in the first place. You can always save your diagram, re-enable this setting, make a trivial change and then test to see if EA complains.

HTH, David

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Program Version: 7.0.816 (Build: 816) - Unicode

David: Thanks, I've made that change and hopefully that'll help.