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More connection points on objects in diagram view

Tim Gaweco

Allow more connection points on an object. Flexible positioning might be preferable, but it causes messiness.

November 7, 2024

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Graham Bunce

Any thoughts on this? You can expand the site of a box but this keeps the same number of connection points. Complex diagrams would benefit a lot.

Jacob Shadbolt

Graham Bunce: High level - yes we plan to implement an update for this - it's just not a priority right now. Do you have examples (you can dm if preferred) where connections are messy today?

Graham Bunce

Jacob Shadbolt I have a context diagram that has 12 external systems (more to be added) and 3 internal systems (more to be added). These are a mix of inbound and outbound messages. I have no choice but to double up these connection points.

This, coupled with the fact I can't manually change the arrow layout, means its not easy to keep the diagram readable

Tim Gaweco

Graham Bunce: To dig into this a bit more, what type of connections are you showing in the diagram? Showing all connections (inbound/outbound) in a single diagram isn't always necessary. Happy to take a look at them as well.

Graham Bunce

Tim Gaweco I have doubled up connections where I can. Most of these are either in-bound or outbound.

They cannot be doubled up further as they come from independent systems (i.e. system A might send several items to system Z, but I have this as one arrow. I cannot double up between system A, B, C, D, E etc. though as they are individual.