Control Shape Line Style using Open API
When creating diagrams sometimes you might want to have the shape showing different line styles, i.e. to have better presentation for your diagram with important elements easily spotted out. In this case you may adjust the line style to make the element looks different. To do this you can specify the line style of the individual element via the user interface. But instead of manually specify the line style shape by shape, you can also do this via the Open API. In this article we will use Class as sample to demonstrate how to control its line style with Visual Paradigm’s Open API. Read more
How to reset model element ID and ID generator
Having unique ID for your model elements are extremely useful in structure of your models in systematic way, also ease the communications with your teams. Visual Paradigm support generate unique ID for all model elements. Once configured, unique ID will be assigned to the model element upon creation. But during your development process the ID of your model elements could become cluttered (i.e. model elements being deleted) and the ID no longer generated in sequence. To solve this problem you can reset the ID of your model elements as well as the index in the ID generator. Read more
How to Purchase more Licenses for your Team
You might need to purchase more Visual Paradigm licenses when your team expends. Adding license to your account is pretty easy and you can do it yourself right inside your Customer Service Center account. In this article, you will learn how to purchase new licenses to your account. Read more
How to stop the recurring payment of your subscription
Visual Paradigm license subscription service allows users to rent and use Visual Paradigm/ArchiMetric on monthly basis. By default the license subscription will be settle with automatic recurring payment with your credit card in order to keep it alive. You can stop the recurring payment and switch back to manual payment mode from your Customer Service Center account. Read more
Perform IDE Integration with ArchiMetric [Obsolete]
| Since version 14.0 ArchiMetric had been replaced by Visual Paradigm Enterprise. |
ArchiMetric (former Visual Paradigm Enterprise Edition) is an all-in-one software and system development tool for end-to-end information technology system modeling. ArchiMetric comes with all the essential tools you need for Enterprise Architecture, such as ArchiMate, Zachman Framework, Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), UML and more…. Similar to Visual Paradigm the ArchiMetric also support integrate with various IDE and allow you to perform requirement capturing, analysis and design as well as development within a single environment. But since the IDE integration is not the primary goal for enterprise architecture modeling users, the IDE integration menu is somehow a little bit hidden. Read more
How to Share Stereotypes Definitions?
Stereotype is an extension mechanism you can use to define new model elements. In Visual Paradigm you can apply stereotype on both UML and BPMN elements.
With the import/export stereotypes utility, you can easily share stereotypes’ definition with colleagues without having to re-configure them again from scratch. If conflicts are detected when importing stereotypes, you can select to resolve them to ensure important configurations are not accidentally overwritten by other team members.
How to Add New Subscription to your Account
Visual Paradigm license subscription service allows users to rent and use Visual Paradigm on monthly basis. It helps users to save money while benefit from the use of modeling tools in software development. The subscription service is a good point to kick start of adopting Visual Paradigm. As the team grow, more subscription licenses will be needed. Adding new subscription license is an easy task and can be done in few clicks. In this article, you will learn how to add new subscription licenses to your account. Read more
Get Version Upgrades for Your Visual Paradigm Product
Keep upgrading your Visual Paradigm product means to keep your work up-to-date, because every time a new version is available, it comes with tons of new and powerful features, all for improving your productivity and the quality of work.
In order to keep your Visual Paradigm product up-to-date, make sure your software maintenance contract is active. Within the software maintenance period, you can upgrade your software to the latest versions with no additional cost, no matter how many versions will be released within the maintenance period. Note that the price for renewing active maintenance is cheaper than reinstate expired maintenance.
Extending or buying software maintenance can be done in the Customer Service Center. This article will instruct how to renew your maintenance step by step.
How to upgrade Visual Paradigm with old JRE 1.6 to new version
Don’t panic if you see the error message during upgrade of your Visual Paradigm to version 13.0.
Unable to upgrade to version 13.0
This problem is caused by your Visual Paradigm client was upgraded form very old version and by that time it was using JRE 1.6 as the runtime. For long time ago Visual Paradigm already changed to bundle JRE 1.7 (and JRE 1.8 for Mac). Unfortunately the Visual Paradigm Update can only help to update VP software itself, but not the runtime. To deliver better features some libraries used by Visual Paradigm was upgraded in version 13.0. Unfortunately they are not compatible with the old JRE 1.6. For user experienced this problem can follow the steps below to reinstall your Visual Paradigm to version 13.0. Read more
Unable to upgrade VP Server to version 13.0 (or newer)
Some users may experience problem that VP Server fail to run after upgrade to version 13.0, or server remain in its current version after upgrade. This problem is caused by the VP Server is still running with the old JRE1.6. For deliver better features some libraries used by VP Server was being upgraded. Unfortunately they are not compatible with the old JRE 1.6. For users experienced problem on upgrade server can take the following steps to upgrade your server to version 13.0: Read more
