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Enterprise Architect => Bugs and Issues => Topic started by: Guillaume on July 16, 2020, 10:53:20 pm

Title: Connector Line Jump with Archimate
Post by: Guillaume on July 16, 2020, 10:53:20 pm

A client is using Archimate with EA and noticed that the "line jump" doesn't apply to connectors such as Triggering (control flow), Serving (association), etc.
Only a few combinations work e.g. Composition + Aggregation, Composition + Association.

Is there a way to fix this?

Title: Re: Connector Line Jump with Archimate
Post by: Viking on June 04, 2025, 12:15:25 am

Quote from: Guillaume on July 16, 2020, 10:53:20 pm

Is there a way to fix this?

Hi, I have the same issue. For a better readability of a diagram, I wanted to use “Connector Line Jumps”. The lines are based on “Archi Mate3:: Archi Mate_Serving“. But my lines do not “jump”.

• “Enable Connector line jumps“ for diagrams is checked. So, that is not the reason.
• From the manual “Diagram Options” I learned that only “solid-line connectors” are supported by “Enable Connector line jumps“. Serving is solid-line connector.
• In https://sparxsystems.com/forums/smf/index.php?topic=23388.0 I learned from KP that “line jumps aren't available for shape scripted lines (which rules out most MDG Technologies)”. So, I suppose Serving is one of the affected connectors.
• I changed the type of “Archi Mate3:: Archi Mate_Serving“ connector via “Advanced” > “Change Type” to “ControlFlow”. Now the jump is supported, although the stereotype stays “Archi Mate3:: Archi Mate_Serving“. To the connector the name “«Archi Mate_Serving»” has been added.

My questions are:

• If I understand the above correctly only standard UM relationships are “really” supported (beside some exceptions maybe). So, most of the notations in SparxEA are affected, right?
• Why does “type change” work, although it is still a stereotype?

V.