Visio database diagrams, associating columns
You can use the Visio Drawing tools to force the Relationship Connector to glue to particular Connection Points on the Table Shapes:
- Turn on Connection Points in the View menu.
- On the standard toolbar find the Connector Tool just to the right of the Pointer Tool. Click on the little arrow and change to the Connection Point Tool.
- Hold Ctrl and click on one of the Table Shapes at the point where you want to join the Relationship Connector.
- Do the same on the other Table Shape.
- Glue the ends of the Relationship Connector to the Connection Points you just added.
- You will have broken the relationship. To fix it, select the Relationship Connector and view the definition of the relationship in the Database Properties Window.
- Associate the fields again.
(This was tested with Visio Enterprise 2003.)