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Guillaume

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Feature to group associations on a diagram
« on: March 29, 2013, 10:24:13 pm »
Hi

I often find it difficult and time consuming to draw a number of associations from let's say 10 activities to the same node such as gateway on a BPMN diagram. Line styles help but once you move e.g. a pool, it can be a pain to re-align everything..

Could we have in EA a feature that groups a selection of associations/links so they all align on the path :

   [ch9484]-----
   [ch9500]-----
   [ch9500]-----
--[ch9508]    
   [ch9500]-----

thanks
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Re: Feature to group associations on a diagram
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2013, 08:12:22 am »
It already exists (mostly). You want tree style connectors, but that will only work for a number of connectors with the same target.