Kick Start on Using AI Features in Visual Paradigm Desktop

Visual Paradigm Desktop has officially introduced AI-powered features, bringing intelligent assistance directly into your modelling and design environment. With this enhancement, users can now generate diagrams with the support of AI making the platform smarter and more efficient than ever before.

To take advantage of these new capabilities, users need to ensure they are running the latest version of Visual Paradigm Desktop and have access to the AI service via Visual Paradigm Online. Once enabled, the AI features integrate seamlessly into your Visual Paradigm Desktop, ready to assist with modelling.

This article will walk you through the essential requirements for using it, and the steps you need to follow to activate and start benefiting from these features in your daily work.

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How to Find Out Your Workspace ID

The Visual Paradigm Online workspace ID is a unique identifier assigned to your VP Online workspace, used to connect Visual Paradigm Desktop with your online repository. If you already joined to Visual Paradigm Online, either signup by yourself, or invited by your team members, you can use the following way to locate the ID of your workspace.

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Automating Jira Backlog Creation with Agilien

Agilien is an innovative AI-powered assistant designed to simplify one of the most time‑consuming tasks in project management: building a comprehensive Jira backlog. Instead of manually drafting dozens of epics, stories, and tasks, Agilien allows you to start with just the essentials – your project’s domain, context, and goals. From this minimal input, the tool automatically generates a structured backlog that reflects your project’s objectives and priorities.

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How to enable QueryBase

Visual Paradigm QueryBase is a web-based tool that enables users to explore, search, and analyze model data from Visual Paradigm projects stored in the cloud. It provides an intuitive interface for querying across various diagram types – including UML, BPMN, ArchiMate, ERD, and more – without needing to open the desktop modeling environment. Designed for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, QueryBase allows users to trace relationships, inspect model structures, and validate design consistency directly from a browser. Its real-time synchronization with Visual Paradigm Online ensures that users always access the most current version of their projects, making it ideal for collaborative review, stakeholder engagement, and quality assurance. To enable QueryBase in your repository:

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Atlassian Jira Integration

Starting from version 17.3 build 20251021, Visual Paradigm supports integration with Atlassian Jira. This enhancement enables users to create issues and post comments directly to Jira from within Visual Paradigm. In this article, we’ll walk you through the steps to set up and use this integration effectively.

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How to set icon to stereotype via plugin

Visual Paradigm allows user to using custom graphic to present stereotypes. Besides using GUI, this can also being configured using Plugin API. In this article you will learn how to configure stereotype icon using Plugin.

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How to link your Visual Paradigm Desktop license to Visual Paradigm Online

By linking your Visual Paradigm Desktop license to Visual Paradigm Online, you gain access to additional cloud-based features such as AI-powered tools, online diagramming, and version-controlled repositories. This article will guide you through the steps to connect your Desktop license with your Visual Paradigm Online account.

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What is UserSpecific.options

UserSpecific.options is a special file store configuration for override default behavior of the application. The configuration specify here are either override application behavior, or saving administrator’s effort on distribute some general configuration to users. Options are define in name=value pair with one option per line. This file is stored under VisualParadigm setting folder.

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Atlassian Confluence Integration

Visual Paradigm support integration with Atlassian Confluence in version 17.3 build 20250901. This allows you to directly publish your diagram images into Confluence. In this article we guide you through the steps to setup the integration and publish your diagrams.

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