Edge doesn't point to field in record if defined as part of a group

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I’m using Graphviz (and the dot language) to document the operations for a web app . Since there are often many operations available on a page, I’ve been grouping the mappings for neatness and to prevent repeating myself.

However, I’m unable to get edges to point to the correct field in a record, when the edges are defined in a group. Individually they work fine.

Before anyone asks, I realise record-based nodes are largely superseded by HTML-like labels. However, those are too verbose for what I’m trying to achieve and I don’t need the extra features, so I’m sticking with the original.

Here’s a working example:

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digraph site_map {

    // Pages
    {
        node[shape=component]
        
        page1[label="Page 1"]
        page2[label="Page 2"]
    }
    
    // Operations
    {
        node[shape=record style=filled fillcolor=green]
        
        entity1[label="Entity 1 | {<save> Save |<get> Get |<del> Del}"]
        entity2[label="Entity 2 | {<save> Save |<get> Get |<del> Del}"]
    }

    // Mappings: Page -> Operation
    {
        // Page 1 - short form (doesn't work)
        page1 -> {
            entity1:save
            entity1:get
            entity1:del
            
            entity2:get
        }
        
        // Page 2 - Long form
        page2 -> entity1:save
        page2 -> entity1:get
        page2 -> entity1:del
        page2 -> entity2:get
    }
}

I originally posted this question on Stackoverflow here

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Here is the best (non) answer I can find from Drawing graphs with dot (https://www.graphviz.org/pdf/dotguide.pdf):

a subgraph defines a subset of nodes and edges

There are only two nodes in your subgraph: entity1 and entity2, the three hoped-for edges are collapsed into one.
What you want makes perfect sense and the syntax is legal, but no go.

By the way, you would not get a “better” result if you used html-like records.