Line connectors lose connection when grouped with text

Hey ​@MarkTerrington looks like you're coming up against a limitation here. Just curious, what is it about the standard text on line connector that is not viable in this situation? We may be able to come at this problem from a different angle depending on your needs.

Hi ​@Eric Padron thanks for your reply.

Some of it is pretty basic.  On some I wanted to have a background colour to the text to make it stand out a little more, with an opacity on the background but not the text.

Other times it is as simple as having vertical text on a vertical line.  Currently I cannot see ways to rotate the text to keep aligned with with line.

I would say the vertical text is the main one, as I am building a software landscape and having to denote all interfaces between systems - so not being able to have vertical text on a vertical line makes things a little messy.   I am sure I have missed a basic button to enable this, but I cannot find such a thing, so having to revert to a combination of text and line. 

Thanks for your help in advance.

Kind regards,

Mark

Got it. Given the need for text rotation and background opacity while keeping the nodes connected, you could hack it by inserting a shape between the two shapes. This would then give you full control over the appearance of the text, orientation, and background of the inserted shaped containing your shape, without the need to group (break the connection). One of the downsides of this approach is if you end up moving the shapes around the canvas, there is an additional move needed, but the nodes remain connected. Take a look below:
 

Hi ​@Eric Padron 

Background opacity and colour isn’t a big thing, it’s the vertical text being the main “ask”. 

What you’ve suggested is basically what I am doing and what I mentioned in my initial post.

Thanks,

Mark

Sort of. The difference here is that instead of grouping text with the connector, we bisect the connector with a shape. No need to group.

​@Eric Padron Yes, I stopped grouping the text with the arrow as the connection was more important that the associate name of the arrow..

​@MarkTerrington Understood. I think you have a really good candidate here for a feature update. You have my vote :)