Connections are the arrows that connect two elements. They link a source element (connection start) to a target element (connection arrowhead).
Connections indicate possible directions of the story flow in a board.
{info} Connections also connect elements to branches and jumpers.
To create a connection from an element to another:
A connection's placement will be either fixed to the dropped side or automatic: its ends will always place themselves in such a way as to cover the shortest possible distance between the source and the target element.
You can change a connection's source or target by dragging and dropping its endpoints to a different element.
To delete a connection:
or:
or:
Connections can optionally take labels. The connection labels may contain formatted text and arcscript. Any arcsript inside connections will be evaluated before determining whether to display an option in play mode that depends on branch conditional statements. The arcscript inside labels will be applied to play mode state after the option is selected and before the element content is displayed.
To add arcscript code inside a connection label click on the arcscript segment icon in the toolbar while editing the label. To exit the block press Enter.
On play mode, the text of a connection's label appears as the text of the respective clickable option on that element.
To create a label:
or:
You can then start typing the label's text.
Labels allow rich text format (bold, italics, underline).
Once finished writing a label, press escape or tab.
To edit a label:
or:
Just as with elements, we can add arcscript segments inside a connection label. We can use this to:
Here is an example that does both:
To delete a label:
or:
To change the colour theme of a connection, right-click on it and select one of the available colours from the menu.
Connections have three types, Bezier (default), Straight and Flowchart.
To change a connection type, right-click on the connection and choose one of the available type icons.
{success} The most recently selected connection type becomes the default connection type for new connections.