FigJam is currently pretty limited when it comes to architecture diagrams. We really need the ability, like other diagramming tools, to add customer connection points onto all shapes so that lines can attach in more than just 4 places.
Hi there,
Thank you for sharing your idea! We greatly value your feedback, and we would like to gauge the reaction of other members in the community. We may consider it for future enhancements!
Thanks,
Toku
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I definitely +1 this request. Iām often dealing with complex flows which essentially resemble sequence diagrams. At the moment, those are almost impossible to create because lines have to emerge from the same fixed location which ruins the ātimeā communication of the diagram, and sequence of events.
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Yeah, Iām trying to do more technical application architecture diagrams and itās just not very good for this. I am currently fudging it by grouping diamond shapes inside of squares and then connecting lines to the shapes inside the square - but itās kludgy. If there is no desire to fix it I will be forced to abandon FigJam and go back to draw.io or something else.
I have the same problem. I love FigJam but I canāt design technical diagrams. I donāt want to use another tool, Iād rather use FigJam for everything but this missing feature is a killer.
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For anyone interested in this feature, donāt forget to vote it up at the top of the page!
A start would be to add connection points to each cell of a table, or to expand the 4-point to a 9-point structure?
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Upvoting this! Agreed with Koesper that expanding the 4-point structure would be awesome. We want to move our technical diagramming to FigJam too!
It would be nice to be able to have more connection points on an object in a FigJam flowchart. When you have to create more complex flow charts you can lose some clarity because you might have to have multiple line coming in an out of a single object and 4 connection points might not be enough. Iāve attache a couple examples of what Iām trying to achieve.
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Upvoting too. Custom connection points are a must have feature for anything but the most trivial architecture/block diagramming (and real work is never trivial).
I consider this feature to be the most critically needed missing feature to make FigJam viable for our collaboration needs.
Same here too, our Backend Devs canāt add enough details when they are doing these maps due to the limited list of connector options please Figma Team add this simple feature to FigJam this will help a lot of teams.
I would also make this more advanced and have the option to even upload or use an icon as a custom connector just to give even more freedom to have your own setup.
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This would be so useful! Especially for Entity Relationship Diagrams. Iām also interested in this idea, which could really help in some scenarios.
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Please add this feature. Itās very difficult to create ERDs in FigMa.
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I agree this is necessary before considering a move from Visio for a material amount of my work.
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Very much would love this to be added. I would love to be able to ditch MIRO for most of my diagram needs to keep it in one tool. This is one of those features that limit for clarity needs IMO.
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Chiming in, I keep hitting this limitation and getting frustrated for technical diagramming.
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This will be a great feature for FigmaJam, I am not sure how Figma developers havent deduce that, as is a normal feature in other solutions. We should share this request with more people to and atract more attention to this, searching on this I can see that it pops out from time to time.
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I would totally use this all the time for technical software engineering diagrams for my team. Itās really hard for me to do distinct io flows without everything mushing together right now
Iām not sure if Iāve missed something, but I think this functionality already exists. If you snap an arrow/line to one of the four connection points and then press control whilst dragging the connection point along horizontally/vertically in line with the connection point, you can create any number of bespoke connection points.
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@Lord_Hill is right. They totally fixed this. This was the big ādeal breakerā me for designing anything complex in FigJam. Thanks Figma!