To increase the efficiency of modeling, you may have a specific folder in your machine to store relevant materials, such as documentations and projects, so that you can easily pick up what you need. In consideration of this, our file/directory choosers allows you to add those folders favorite. Once you add a folder as favorite, you can revisit the folder by clicking on the favorite link whenever you want to pick up the materials inside.
In database design, instead of using primary key we may also use various business keys (also known as alternate key) to unique identify records. The use of business key give you different perspective on identify records from your database tables. In Visual Paradigm you can use these business key to establish relationships with other entities. In this article we will show you how to make use of the business key to relating entities. Read more
When perform IDE Integration you may receive error complain Visual Paradigm didn’t have sufficient permission for perform the integration.
No permission to perform IDE Integration
Visual Paradigm Community Edition is a FREE UML drawing tool for you to create professional-look UML diagrams easily and quickly thought its award-winning diagramming interface. Visual Paradigm Community Edition supports not only UML but also ERD and SysML. Students and UML beginners like to learn and practice UML and modeling skills with Visual Paradigm Community Edition. Open source and community groups use Visual Paradigm Community Edition to document their software projects and publish the output to their Web pages/blogs. In this article we will show you how to register and activate your Visual Paradigm Community Edition. Read more
Details of model elements can be documented in written form via the Description Pane or inside the Specification dialog. In order to avoid putting too much information on the diagram by default descriptions are not showing on the diagram. Instead of unfolding the description manually on diagram by writing textual annotation, you can make use of the Note element to display the description its connecting model element.
Android Studio is the official IDE for the development of Android applications. It is based on JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA. Starting from Visual Paradigm version 12.2 user can make use of Visual Paradigm IntelliJ IDEA Integration to integrate with Android Studio. But since Android Studio do have some fundamental differences with IntelliJ IDEA, some extra configuration will need in order to run Visual Paradigm in Android Studio on MS Windows (Linux and Mac users can simply integrate VP with Android Studio without extra configuration). This article will teach you how to integrate Visual Paradigm with Android Studio and perform the necessary configurations. Read more
The group feature helps you bring multiple shapes together so that you can select, move and delete them together easily.
Grouping and ungrouping of shapes can be performed easily with the help of the resource-centric interface. In this article you will learn how to group and ungroup shapes with resource.
The reference feature enables you to add external file and URL references to model elements. When you try to open a reference, Visual Paradigm will open it with system default application (or browser for URL reference). If you want to use another application or command to open certain kinds of file and URL references, read this article to learn how to make it work.
Interface design with Visual Paradigm’s wireframe provide analyst a way to visualize what the system will look like and how clients can interact with the system. When modeling with wireframe, extra details of specific wireframe elements can be documented inside the specification dialog, and they can be output to documents when needed. In this article we will show you how to output individual elements of your wireframe including its description in tabular form using Doc. Composer. We will also show you how to filter out the elements by its type when outputting to Doc. Composer. Read more
The database modeling tool in Visual Paradigm allow user to design and model database with Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD). Besides modeling of database, you can also generate Database Definition Language (DDL) from your ERD. Unless you would like to generate DDL for altering the database, otherwise it is not necessary to setup connection with your database in order to generate DDL. You can simply pick the default database for your project, and let VP generate the database creation statement for you. Read more
