Possible to draw a line to another box via id or label?

Question

 

Question, Is it possible to have a diagram where the 'then' block of an if statement, instead of defining its own content draws a line to a different location in the diagram? For example, In the following snippet, I do not want a box representing 'Four', but instead a want a line (for yes) going from 'CondB' to 'Two'. I do not know if this is possible, and if it is, how to express it?

 

Thank you for you attention.

 

@startuml

if (CondA?) then (yes)

  : One;

  : Two;

  : Three;

  else (no)

endif

if (CondB?) then (yes)

  : Four;

  else (no)

endif

stop

@enduml

Answer 1

Unfortunately no, you cannot do this.

You are looking for some kind of goto and this is difficult to implement.

However, we have started to implement some (limited) "break" feature, and maybe this could be useful for you:

Example:

@startuml
start
repeat
  :Test something;
    if (Something went wrong?) then (no)
      :OK;
      break
    endif
    ->NOK;
    :Alert "Error with long text";
repeat while (Something went wrong with long text?) is (yes)
->no;
:Alert "Sucess";
stop
@enduml

Comments

Hello,

Currently I'm working on a diagram where I need to add an additional step before the merge node happens after the Repeat While.

Is this something you can accomplish now with this activity Syntax?