Debug your plugins with Eclipse

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tomcat-thumbVisual Paradigm Open API provides an interface for developers to develop plugins and extend the functionalities of Visual Paradigm. Plugin development could be time consuming especially during debug phrase since you constantly need to deploy your plugin to Visual Paradigm, even just with slightly changes. Instead of deploy the plugin to VP every time after you made changes, you can directly launch VP with your plugin from Eclipse to perform debugging. This article teaches how to configure Eclipse to perform debugging on your plugins. Read more

How to Share Doc. Composer Templates with your Teammates

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tomcat-thumbDoc. Composer allows you to develop documents for your models tailored to your company/industry requirements and standards. You can decide how the model data are being presented in the document by customize the document templates. If your team is using Teamwork Server or VPository as the collaboration development platform, your customized templates can automatically synchronize between team members so that you don’t need to manually manage deploy the templates to members. Read more

Create relationship with elements on existing diagram without drag & drop

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tomcat-thumbVisual Paradigm provides the intuitive Resource Centric Interface which provides various handy tools to helps you create diagrams. i.e. The Resource Catalog allows you to create diagram without remember the required syntax on different modeling languages. The Resource Catalog allows you to create connected elements, or create relationships by simply drag & drop of resource icons. But sometimes drag & drop sometime may not be very handy in creating relationships between existing elements, i.e. when working on a large diagram. Instead of using drag & drop, you can also make use of the Quick Connect feature in Resource Catalog to create relationships between existing elements on your diagram. To do this: Read more

How to reset Visual Paradigm Subscription password

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Visual Paradigm’s product subscription plan allows user to rent and use Visual Paradigm on monthly basis. By joining the subscription plan user will receive a long ID and password for online activate the software. In case you have loss your password you can reset it with the following ways. Read more

Unable to import Enterprise Architect Project

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In some environment the import of Enterprise Architect project may refuse to run with the following error.

Unable to import Enterprise Architect project

Unable to import Enterprise Architect project

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How to upgrade Visual Paradigm with old JRE 1.6 to new version

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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

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

How to Add New Subscription to your Account

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tomcat-thumbVisual 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

How to Share Stereotypes Definitions?

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Share stereotypes thumbnailStereotype 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.

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How to stop the recurring payment of your subscription

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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

How to Purchase more Licenses for your Team

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tomcat-thumbYou 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