Setting line jumps options

As more diagram elements on your diagram, more miscellaneous connectors are overlapped with each other. It is impossible to explicate on those intersections which connector you indicate. The advantage of Line Jumps is to make one of the two connectors different to another to indicate that which connector links with which diagram element clearly. Business Process Visual ARCHITECT provides four line jumps options to help you to distinguish connectors. Furthermore, the enhanced feature of line jumps in BP-VA 4.0 enables you to set different size of line jumps.

Setting connector line jumps options

To change the jumps option of a connector, right click on the connector, select Style and Formatting > Connector Style and then select an option under Line Jumps.

Set Arc

Arc sample

Line jump options

Name Sample  Off    Arc    Gap    Square

The description of 4 line jump options

Setting diagram base line jumps options

In addition to the 4 options mentioned above, Follow Diagram is another choice for altering the connectors. The prime feature of Follow Diagram is, instead of setting it one by one, all connectors in the diagrams can be changed simultaneously instead of setting one by one.

Right Click on the diagram background, select Connectors and select one of four options under Line Jumps from the pop-up menu.

Select Arc from the pop-up menu

Setting Line Jump for New Project

Select Tools > Project Options from the main menu.

In the Project Options dialog box, open the Diagramming page, switch to the Connector tab and select the Line Jumps style, or select Off to disable it. At last, Click OK to confirm the changes.

Check Arc in Options dialog box

Setting different line jump size

You can enlarge the line jump size to make the selected line jump (or all line jumps) on the connector(s) more obvious. Furthermore, the size of line jump can be customized in either the current diagram or the future diagram. If you only want to set to the connectors of current diagram, right click on the diagram's background, select Connectors and then a size option from the pop-up menu. Otherwise, if you want to set to the connectors of future diagram, set it through Options dialog box. Three size are availabe for chooising. Normal is the standard size by default while extra large is the maximum size.

Setting line jump size for current diagram

1. Right click on the diagram's background, select Connectors and then a size option from the pop-up menu.
   

   Set Large

2. The line jump(s) on the current diagram will turn into the size you selected.
   

   Arc in large size

Setting line jump size for future diagram

1. Select Tools > Project Options from the main menu to open the Options dialog box.
2. In the Project Options dialog box, click Diagramming page and open Connector tab.
3. Under the Line Jumps section, check an line jump option and then select a line jump size option from Line jump size's drop-down menu.
   

   Select Large