Link Connections

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The Ports tab in the Styling Customizer of links allows you to define the origin of a link as one of the OUT ports of a symbol. Similarly, you can define the destination of a link as one of the IN ports of a symbol. Ports on symbols are defined using the Symbol Editor (see Link-In and Link-Out Ports in the Using the Symbol Editor user documentation).

The Controls tab in the Styling Customizer for nodes allows you to define the link connector mode. Available modes are: FREE, CLIP, and CENTER. The link connector mode controls the connection of all the links that are incident to a particular node. To specify a link connector for each link individually, use the Ports tab. For details about link connectors, see Contact Points in the Essential JViews Framework user documentation.

Please note that, when graph layout is enabled, the link connection points may be modified by the layout algorithm used (see Inappropriate-Link Exception in the Using Graph Layout Algorithms user documentation).

0. The graph layout configuration (if graph layout is enabled)
1. The configuration defined in the Ports tab of the link Styling Customizer
2. The configuration defined in the Controls tab of the node Styling Customizer
3. The FREE connector mode