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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: adama on March 29, 2017, 11:12:33 pm

Title: Hide/Show Connectors
Post by: adama on March 29, 2017, 11:12:33 pm

Problem: This one is crazy.  If you hide a connector by first pressing delete and then choosing to hide, there is no way to show it again on that particular diagram.

Suggestion: Regardless of how you Hide a connector, you should be able to Show it again, using either the "Insert Related Items" dialog or the "Links" dialog. This should be an easy fix: Just point to the same internal API that toggles Hide/Show in the Links pane.

Refer to the EA User Guide:
http://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/13.0/modeling_tools/hideshowconnectors.html (http://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/13.0/modeling_tools/hideshowconnectors.html)

Steps:
1. On any diagram draw a connector between any two elements.
2. Press Del key. System prompts to either delete the connector or hide it.
3. Choose to Hide it, and click OK.

Attempted Workarounds:
1. Right-click on either element, "Insert Related Items".  Locate and check the connector you just hid, and click OK.
EA will not show the connector.

2. Open the Properties dialog for one of the elements. In the left pane, select "Links" under "Related". Right click on the connector. It does not provide a "Show" option.
There is no way to instruct EA to show the connector.

** Current Constraint/Recommendation until this is fixed **
- NEVER use the Del key to hide a connector. Always use the Links method.

Title: Re: Hide/Show Connectors
Post by: Helmut Ortmann on March 30, 2017, 12:13:29 am

Hi,

the Current Connector toolbar has 'Show and Hide Toolbar (Strg + Umschalt + I)'. The Icon with glasses.

Kind regards,

Helmut

Title: Re: Hide/Show Connectors
Post by: qwerty on March 30, 2017, 12:47:39 am

If I select the connector in the Element/Relations window, the context offers Show Relation.

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Title: Re: Hide/Show Connectors
Post by: adama on March 30, 2017, 03:42:33 am

Thanks to Helmut and to Qwerty. Both methods work. :)

So many ways to view the model: that's great, but sometimes confusing. It becomes confounding when the system doesn't apply features consistently (as per my complaint). When not enable show/hide the same everywhere? For example, the Tractability window is very similar to the Element Browser; why not enable it there too?

Title: Re: Hide/Show Connectors
Post by: qwerty on March 30, 2017, 04:23:19 am

Because EA is consistently inconsistent and well known for its Unique Interface :-/ Probably the marketing out there misunderstood the meaning of Unique Selling Proposition.

q.