Create an Organization Chart Using Open API

Organization chart is a useful tool for showing an organization’s structure, indicating its parts and positions’ relationships and ranks. This article will demonstrate how to create an organizational chart using Open API.

The organization chart will be created by the plugin.

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How to bring Visual Paradigm’s Modeling menu back in IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2

Visual Paradigm support integrate the modeling environment into different IDEs, including the latest IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2. But for some reason the Visual Paradigm’s Modeling menu may not able to show in IntelliJ IDEA’s main menu bar.

Visual Paradigm’s Modeling menu missing in IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2

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Create a Mind Map Using Open API

Mind Map is a useful tool to visualize information, where relationships between information are drawn. In this article, you will be shown how to create a mind map using Open API.

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Create Data Flow Diagram Using Open API

A Data Flow Diagram displays the flow of data of a system, using rectangles and arrows. This article will demonstrate how to create a data flow diagram using Open API.

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Filter Model Element by Tagged Values in Doc. Composer

With Doc. Composer you can create custom templates to filter out particular model elements in your project and output its details into document. In this article you will learn how to filter the model elements by its element type and tagged values. We will use ArchiMate Application Component as example and demonstrate how to extract the Application Component with tagged value Financial Management (FM) set to true from your project (Application Component in green in diagram below). Read more

Create Entity-Relationship Diagram Using Open API

Entity-relationship modelling (ER model) becomes handy when building a data base. An ER diagram is being used to indicate relations between different entities in a data base. This article will show you how to create an Entity-Relationship Diagram using Open API.

The ERD going to create by the plugin

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Create Frame in Web Diagram

VP Online provides diagram editor for user to create various kind of diagrams (UML, BPMN, ArchiMate, ERD, AWS, Azure, etc…) via web browser. In this article you will learn how to create frame on your UML (or any other) diagrams.

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Delete custom Doc. Composer Templates

Doc. Composer templates allow user to customize how the model data being generated into documents. For standalone users or team collaboration users with proper permission he can freely make change or create customize templates. In case the template become outdated and wrongly created he can then remove it from repository. In this article we will show you how to remove the Doc. Composer templates in the repository. Read more

Create Decision Table using Open API

Decision Table is a handy tool to present the business rules and regulations. It present the rules in tabular form which make it become an extremely easy to use reference resource on business decisions and system logics. Decision Tables is supported starting from the Professional Edition of Visual Paradigm. Besides create it manually over Visual Paradigm’s client you can also do it programmatically using Open API. This article will demonstrate how to create Decision Table using Open API.

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How to rename your team collaboration project in VP Desktop

In VP Desktop you can rename your team collaboration project (either in VP Online or on-premises Teamwork Server) in the following way. Read more