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Can't connect activities in activity diagram in EA


Hi I'm currently stuck with a problem with Activity diagram in EA. I'm trying to describe a code. When I add Start controll node and activity node I'm not able to connect them by control flow.

The same problem happens when I try to connect two activities together with control flow - I'm getting following error:

The requested connection is not UML compliant

Anybody can give some advice on this?

Thanks


Solution

  • Edit: Please look down the other answers here. I just did not read correctly about what you were doing. This one is meant for the cases where EA did block users the wrong way. In your case it's blocking you for good reasons

    Original answer

    You can turn off "Strict connector syntax" in the Connector options. You find that in various places in EA's option jungle depending on the version. V14 has a couple of known bugs related to that. Not sure about V15 or any state of fixing that.


    In V13.5 you find that option under Layout/Appearance/Theme & ...

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    (right bottom)