Visual Paradigm’s Open API is a powerful tool which allow user to extend the functionalities of Visual Paradigm software. Open API provide full access to the model information within the project, and user can retrieve the diagram and model information in programmatic approach. For most of the case user can obtain the diagram and model information as a collection where the elements are sorted based on the creation order. But in Business Process Diagram there is a special way to retrieve the elements according to their flow order. In this article we will show you how it works. Read more

When creating diagrams sometimes you might want to have the caption not showing in the default location, i.e. to have better layout for the containing elements while not having the name being covered. In this case you may adjust the caption position to reserve space for the child elements. To do this you can specify the caption placement of the individual element via the user interface. But instead of manually specify the caption placement shape by shape, you can also do this via the Open API. In this article we will use Component as sample to demonstrate how to control its caption position with Visual Paradigm’s Open API. Read more

Visual Paradigm’s Open API allow user to access the model data in your project in programmatic way by creating plugin. With Open API you can create new diagram or model elements to your project, also retrieve the diagram or model elements form your project and manipulate it. When dealing with model element there are 2 approach we can use to retrieve it from your project. In this article we will teach you how to obtain the model element via Open API. Read more

Date is a very important property in model since it recorded the timestamp when a diagram or model element was being created or modified. In Visual Paradigm all diagrams and most of the model elements are having date property for storing its creation date time, as well as the last modified date time. In this article we will show you how to retrieve the date time property and format it into human readable text. Read more