MySQL Bugs: #20644: unable to save relationship label floater custom positions

Bug #20644	unable to save relationship label floater custom positions
Submitted:	23 Jun 2006 1:33	Modified:	5 Jul 2006 15:46
Reporter:	Geoffrey Hoffman	Email Updates:
Status:	Won't fix	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench Preview	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:	1.0.6. Beta	OS:	Windows (Windows XP)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Upon exporting the model to SQL, the relationship label floaters that you can drag into a nice position move randomly and the new positions are overwritten in the file even though I didn't save.

How to repeat:
Open up a model that has multiple relationships defined between tables.
Organize the tables in a nice visual arrangement on the work area.
Move some of the relationship labels to make room for compacting the layout, as you might have to do if you could print it out.
Now save and then quit and reopen, verify that the position all saved correctly. On my system it works up to this point.

Export to SQL Create Script.
Some of the labels are now repositioned. Quitting and reopening the document shows the rel labels have been saved to their undesirable location that they jumped to on export.

Suggested fix:
Lock down my layout objects entirely unless I move something and save, period.

Couldn't the label floaters have orange handles for resizing also?

Hi Geoffrey and thanks for your problem report.
The behavior I see is that when you click "Export" all collapsed nodes of tables you made modifications in appearance get expanded causing labels to "jump around". However I can't verify that file has been saved with new positions:
C:\tmp>fc test.mwb CONTROLTEST.MWB
Comparing files test.mwb and CONTROLTEST.MWB
FC: no differences encountered

On further investigation it appears that while it is possible to reposition the relationship floaters, their positions are not saved, and revert to default positions upon closing and opening the file. Exporting Create SQL merely reverts the mwd to its saved state with default positions for relationship label floaters. Bug should be reclassified as 'unable to save relationship label floater custom positions'.

Geoffrey, I agree with you. Changing synopsis and severity since it's feature request actually.

If you create a relationship, the label floater appears in the "program generated default location".

If you reposition the relationship label floaters, the offsets are not saved with the document.

Exporting Create Table SQL causes the saved state to reload, which, in turn causes any repositioned relationship label floaters to appear to jump back to their stored/default state.