MySQL Bugs: #35403: Some connectors are not movable and force the table to be moved

Bug #35403	Some connectors are not movable and force the table to be moved
Submitted:	18 Mar 2008 15:23	Modified:	3 Aug 2009 23:52
Reporter:	Tony Freixas	Email Updates:
Status:	Duplicate	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0.15-rc	OS:	Windows (Windows XP)
Assigned to:	Alfredo Kojima	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	CHECKED, connector

Description:
Some connectors have only two segments. Only connectors with three segments can be altered. The problem is that this connector may be drawn over (or under) another table.

The only way to fix the problem is to move a table or two. This may seem simple, but in some complicated diagrams, this can be a real pain.

I would like to report this as a bug because of the overlap problem, rather than a feature request.

This problem does not occur in DB Designer 4 (or at least, I've never run into it).

How to repeat:
See attached schema file for an example.

Suggested fix:
The real problem is the limited ability to move connections. I'd love to be able to move a connection from one side of a table to another and to shift the order of connections on one side of a table. But that probably falls into the category of an enhancement request.

The solution may be to always draw a connection with 3 segments. I suspect this is what DB Designer 4 does. I also believe (but haven't verified) that any connection with 2 segments can be converted into one with three segments by changing one end of the connection to an adjacent side of the table.

File demonstrating reported problem.

Attachment: Bug.mwb (application/octet-stream, text), 4.90 KiB.

This is a duplicate of feature request/bug #33803