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Moving association/information flow buggy
« on: February 10, 2012, 10:13:08 pm »
I just submitted a bug related to moving a connector with information flows realized. Here are the steps:

- create two classes A and B
- draw an information flow from A to B
- choose Add and create a class C and close the dialogues
- draw an association between A and B
- for the association choose Advanced/Information Flows Realized
(note that its quite annoying that both connectors overlay each other and you do not get the context menu for the association immediately. Instead often you must shift one connector to reach the other which is very user unfriendly)
- now check the C class
- create a class D
- move the source end of the information flow/association from A to D
- note that the displayed connector shows connected from D to B
- select class A
-> in the Relationships window you see that  the information flow has not been moved!

As a work around I hide the association, move the information flow too and unhide the association. I lost quite some information flows after deleting the A classes until I noticed the source of the problem.

This handling is by far not optimal. I think there could be much better solutions to handle realized information flows.

I guess not too many use this feature as it's really hard to create and handle these associations. But to those which are using it: what do you think? Are you happy with the current handling?

q.