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Johan Hiemstra asked:
Do the lines 'snap' when you connect them?
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Yes
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Goldstein, Dan asked:
You refer to "drawing boxes." Did you draw boxes with the Rectangle Tool, use shapes from a Visio stencil, or import pictures?
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I started with the Data Entity from the Martin ERD stencil. As I've had to add extra lines of text, I've been using the Connection Point Tool to add connection points where I need them. When I move the Data Entity (the box) the connection points ARE moving with it, but the lines are staying put.
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Are you drawing lines with the Line Tool or the Connector Tool?
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Connector Tool. The little red box appears when I plug the end of a line onto a connection point. Again, some of the lines are moving and some are not.
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When you move a shape with a glued connection, the line stays connected to the shape. However, this works only if you move it with the mouse or the keyboard arrows -- *not* by cutting and pasting.
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Yep, I know. Which is why I'm confused, because I am creating these connections the same way every time and only some of them don't move. And weirder yet, sometimes a single line will move and sometimes it won't.
Glued is turned on, by the way. Someone suggested I should check that.
I am running this over the network, could that have something to do with it? I mean, I don't see how, but who knows.
Also, I'm using a Text tool to write the table names over the data entity and then I'm grouping the text and entity. Could the grouping have something to do with the lines not staying glue to the entity?
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