Displaying Junction Names

[lavenderb]

Description

The ArchiMate 3.2 Specification states:
The or junction can be used to express both inclusive and exclusive or conditions, which could be indicated by a modeler by naming the junction to reflect its type
It also allows built-in specialisation of junctions - useful for user-defined logic (e.g. any 2 of 3, conditional probability, etc ).
Although these cases are well supported in Archi - they both rely on junctions being distinguishable by name.

There doesn't appear to be a way of having the junction name appear in a diagram, alongside the visual element.

[Phillipus]

There doesn't appear to be a way of having the junction name appear in a diagram, alongside the visual element.

The figure doesn't have a text label attached to it by design in order to restrict its size. If it did, its size would have to increase to accommodate the text like this:

[lavenderb]

Couldn't the name appear just next to the symbol?
The usual Text Alignment / Position options could be used to set the preferred relative placement.

[lavenderb]

The middle-centre position would still be useful to distinguish OR (+) from XOR (⊕) for example.

[Phillipus]

It would mean that the figure would be like any other figure and the connections would stop at the figure's bounds:

The original intent of this figure is to make it a fixed size and circular so the connections look good.

[lavenderb]

OK - then drop it in the bucket marked 'too difficult to bother with for now'. :-)
I was hoping it could be handled similar to relationship names.
Thx

[Phillipus]

It could be offered as an alternative figure to the existing one. Leave this issue open, and come back to it after more consideration...

[lavenderb]

As a compromise - might it be possible to support a very small image or icon within the dot?

★

[Phillipus]

I'll take a look at it...