Any placeholders on the line does not work

[aldrodav]

Hi
i have v24.7.8
and i try to use placeholders in diagram but on the line any placeholders does not work as i expected to add detail in my physical network diagram

i wil be glad and says many thanks you if we can fixup tish bug

[davidjgraph]

If you add labels to a connector, they are child shapes of the edge. Only the default (select and type) label of an edge is the label of the actual edge.

[aldrodav]

@davidjgraph thank you for reply, bat i confused with understanding edge concept int this article
i tryed to add property ifindex42 with value Fo1/1/41 and use this as placeholder of the link lable, but its dosent work also
however this property as placeholder in lable of the switch shape work fine

[elkram]

I have a similar question, and also don't understand your answer.
We'd like to have data driven connector labels and that doesn't seem to be supported.
I don't understand how being the child of the edge affects the function of placeholders.
Can we use the fact that it's a child of the edge to have the labels represent the connecting point by a name we can specify somehow in the data of the object?

[fermil]

This seems the latest discussion of this topic and it appears to be closed. Unfortuntaley on v.29.7.8 (the latest at the time I'm wiriting) the problem is still there. Either there is a genuine bug that hasn't been yet solved or instructuin on how to us this functionality are very poor (see attached screenshot)

[alderg]

Please share the .drawio file.

[fermil]

It's a very simple one
Placeholders_ex.drawio