How to Use Floating License Key in Offline Mode

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The floating license allows you to share your Visual Paradigm license key between your team. While using floating license the software need to keep online and connect to license server for validation. In some situation, such as working in customer’s site or during travel, you may not able to get access to your license server. In this case you can export the floating license key form your server and use the software offline. In this article we will show you how to export the floating license key form your license server, and how to return it back after using.
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Create custom annotation on attributes of generated Hibernate code

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tomcat-thumbAnnotations in Java allow developers to define additional metadata information into their source code. Those annotation can be used as instructions to the compiler, compile-time instructor and also as the runtime instruction to the Java VM. Visual Paradigm support generate hibernate source code generation using Java Persistence Annotations (JPA) approach. Besides you can also define custom annotations in model and generate them along with your hibernate source code. This article shows you how to define custom annotations for attributes in generated hibernate source code. Read more

Changing element type in diagram

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When you maintaining, or even creating a diagram very often you may want to change an existing element into another model type. Unlike most of the diagramming software where user need to manually create the new element and re-establish the connectors, with Visual Paradigm you can done it in few clicks. In this article we will show you how it works. Read more

How to reorder diagrams when export to a single PDF file

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Visual Paradigm support exporting multiples diagrams into a single PDF file in just few clicks. This allow user easily deliver their diagrams to stakeholders for a quick review. By default the diagrams in exported PDF are ordered according to their type, but user can customize it by using logical view. To do this: Read more

Why I cannot generate ERD from class model?

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There is nothing happen when I select Synchronize to Entity Relationship Diagram, no matter from the popup menu of class diagram or from Tools > Hibernate menu…

Synchronize from class model to ERD

Synchronize from class model to ERD

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How to change the location of UML models in IDE integration environment

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tomcat-thumbVisual Paradigm IDE Integration allows user to run Visual Paradigm embedded in various popular IDEs, including Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio. When running Visual Paradigm embedded in IDE, by default the Visual Paradigm project file will be stored inside the IDE project. To change the location of Visual Paradigm project file associated with your IDE project:

 

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Reuse Business Rule in Business Process Diagram

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tomcat-thumbVisual Paradigm support define guideline with necessary constraints for executing certain business operations into business rules. The business rules are not just defined as reference in the business process models, but also can be visualize in diagram. To visualize h the business rule in business process diagram: Read more

How to customize the name of entity index

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The database index helps to improve the performance on data retrieval on the database tables. The index allows database engine locate the required data without having to search in every record in the database table. When defining index for tables in Visual Paradigm, by default the index name will be automatically generated according to a predefined pattern and it is not editable by user.

Index name was automatically filled and cannot be modify

Index name was automatically filled and cannot be modify

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How to create calculated column in ERD

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The calculated column in database (also call generated column in some databases) allow users to define an expression for calculating values by using data from other columns. This saving user effort to obtain the values in desired form by let the DBMS handling it. In Visual Paradigm you can define the expression for calculated column by using the User Type. To create calculated column: Read more

Visual Paradigm not launching on Mac OS X Sierra

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This probably caused by you have downloaded the InstallFree package instead of the software installer. The Visual Paradigm InstallFree package is specific for the compatible with Mac OS X 10.8 or prior release. Please download the DMG package of Visual Paradigm for running on Mac OS X Sierra. To download and install from the DMG package: Read more