John has been a Microsoft MVP, in the award categories of Visio and M365, since 2008.
Editing Visio Dynamic Connectors
John Goldsmith
This post is intended as a quick reference for manually editing Dynamic Connectors that I needed for a customer.
In general, Visio does a good job of handling routing using the Dynamic Connector, but occasionally, and depending on the routing style you have applied, some manual adjustment can be required.
Some terms
A quick glossary of the terms involved:
The connector represents a single path that is made up of a number of segments (the above example containing two). Each segment has a vertex at each end, plus a single midpoint.
Download a PDF cheatsheet:
Nothing's new
Just as I finished putting the above together I realised that Chris Roth (aka Visio Guy) had got here before me and so do check out his write up on the same subject:
Also, a couple of other useful links around this topic: