{"id":461,"date":"2009-07-26T22:57:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T11:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creately.com\/blog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2024-02-15T00:04:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T13:04:30","slug":"multiple-connectors-between-entities-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creately.com\/blog\/features\/multiple-connectors-between-entities-shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Connectors between Entities &#038; Shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p>Many of you are using Creately to put together some wonderful UML, entity relationships and other diagrams that require multiple connectors be connected between the shapes. 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