Adjust number of users to be listed in DS Connector when connecting to Active Directory

Visual Paradigm Online and the on-premises Teamwork Server support integrate with Active Directory using Visual Paradigm’s DS Connector to perform user authentication. During setup you can select the users from your Active Directory to join your VP Online/Teamwork Server. Some users may experience a problem that they can only list out the first 1000 users from Active Directory, where users out of this range cannot be select. This is caused by Active Directory by default only allow query on 1000 objects, which means you can only list out 1000 users in DS Connector. In this article we will show you how to adjust the query limit in your Active Directory to solve this problem.

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Why there are “a” and “M” icon showing in my shapes?

Sometimes you may notices that the elements on diagram having a small “a” and “M” icon showing on its top left corner. What does this mean?

"a" and "M" indicator on diagram

“a” and “M” indicator on diagram

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Defining Tag of Swagger Operations

When generate Swagger REST API by default they will organized under the default category. You can group your Swagger operations this by defining tags in model. To do this:

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How to Backup VP Server Repository

tomcat-thumbVP Server is a server application which included the Teamwork Server, Floating License Server and Update Server. To protect you from losing your valuable works, it is recommended to backup the server from time-to-time. This article will show you how to get it done by using the built-in backup script.

 

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Unable to Launch Visual Paradigm on OSX 10.15 Catalina

Some user may experience problem on launching the Visual Paradigm.app on Mac OS X 10.15.

Unable to launch Visual Paradigm on Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina

Unable to launch Visual Paradigm on Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina

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Create SysML Requirement Diagram Using Open API

The Requirement Diagram is one of the SysML tool which provides a visual approach in representing and managing system requirements. This article will show you how to create Requirement Diagram using Open API.

The Requirement Diagram will be create by the plugin

The Requirement Diagram will be create by the plugin

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Listing Entity Column’s Details in Table

Visual Paradigm support model database schema with Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD). In this article we will create custom template to output all columns in entity in tabular form. To do this:

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Connect Visual Paradigm Desktop Client to a different VP Online repository

In my Visual Paradigm Desktop Client the workspace ID being disabled and I cannot change to another workspace.

Workspace field being disabled for making change

Workspace field being disabled for making change

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Retrieve Image from Model Element’s Description Using Open API

In Visual Paradigm every model elements and diagrams can be describe with rich text content. With Visual Paradigm’s Open API it provide a channel to user to manipulate the diagram and model elements. In this article we will show you how to retrieve the images inside model element’s rich text description for further manipulation. We will demonstrate this by putting the image into ImageIcon and display using a message pane.

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Showing Interface Caption for all ArchiMate diagram in the project

By default in ArchiMate Diagram the caption for interface type elements (i.e. Business Interface, Application Interface, Technology Interface) will have its caption hide away. This is aimed to make the diagrams looks clean and tidy. You can turn on the display of caption individual interface type in your active editing diagram via the Presentation Options menu, or using this plugin to turn on the display of caption for all interface types in all your ArchiMate diagram.

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