Find out the Type of Visual Paradigm License You Are Using
Visual Paradigm offers 3 types of license model – single seat license, floating license and subscription license (SaaS). Customers can pick the license model that best fit their usage when they purchase license.
Knowing the type of license is useful or sometimes essential. But as an end user you may not know the type of license you are using, just because you are not the one who place the order. This article will show you how to find out the type of license you are using. Read more
How to Obtain Log File from Visual Paradigm
Visual Paradigm maintains a log file that chronicles the actions taken within the software, including its performance and any issues that may arise. This article will illustrate how to locate the log file in Visual Paradigm.
Identifying Build Number of Visual Paradigm
When you report an issue to Visual Paradigm, you are encouraged to provide the build number of your Visual Paradigm product installation. By knowing your build number (and other details provided), Visual Paradigm technical support team can take appropriate measure to your problem. Let’s say if the issue you reported has already been fixed in a newer build, we will suggest you to update to the latest build. Otherwise, we will fire an issue report to our team to fix it.
In this article, we will show you how to identify the build number of your Visual Paradigm installation.
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How to turn off the column datatype in ERD?
In an ERD, when you represent the columns that exist in entities, you might only want to show their names but not any other property like their types since datatype is usually not required in early communication of data structure but is only required when implementing a database. In order to simplify an ERD and to avoid giving wrong information, you can hide the datatype, so that only the column names are left. For your convenience, Visual Paradigm supports hiding the datatype of columns, please follow the simple steps below. Read more
How to run Visual Paradigm in Polish?
If your first language is Polish, you might find it more convenient to use a Polish User Interface instead of English which is in default. So that, you can understand the commands more easily and to perform the desired actions faster. Actually, Visual Paradigm supports the capability to allow users to switch to other languages where Polish is one of them. In the following, we will show you the way to switch your User Interface into Polish. Please follow the simple steps below. Read more
Solving SQL Server Connection Problem
Upon database modeling with Visual Paradigm, you always need to connect to the database server to perform generation of your database and reverse engineering of your ER model. However, you may encounter problem in connecting to the Microsoft SQL Server, which is a great obstruction to your modeling. In this article, we will provide ways to help you to check whether your configurations for connecting to SQL Server are correct.
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How to migrate reference projects to VPository
It is often that you have quite a number of models being reused across projects. Duplicating those models across projects would lead to a management nightmare in which you will need to update all those models on all projects when you need to make changes on it. By creating reference projects in Visual Paradigm Standard Edition, you can define those model elements as a global project, which can be reused by other projects. The reference project not only works locally on your machine, but also works in team collaboration environment where it can be shared across teammates. In this article we will teach you how to migrate your local working projects as well as your referenced projects into VPository environment. Read more
How to upgrade VP Server on stock Tomcat
VP Server is an integrated server providing the facilities including Teamwork operation support, Hosting of floating license as well as Centralized update server. The default VP Server package bundled with a web server where you can bring it up by simply download, unpack and run. The default package also allow user to have a seamless server upgrade, by simply upload a webapp package to server and let the server do the rest. In some situation user would prefer to run VP Server on his own Java application server, i.e. already have a Tomcat for other services in the company. With this setup the procedures for upgrade VP Server will be a bit difference. This article will teach you the procedures to update your VP Server which is being deployed to a stock Tomcat. Read more
Unable to run Visual Paradigm after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Mac OS X user may receive the following message when trying to run Visual Paradigm after upgrading their Mac OS to the latest version 10.10 Yosemite.
Unable to run Visual Paradigm due to lack of Java
Creating Data Object Collection in Business Process Diagram
Data Object representing the data being used or updated in your Business Process Diagram. This piece of data can be a physical document, or information in electronic form. It didn’t have any direct affect to the Sequence or Message Flows in the process model, but providing information about what the flow does. You can specify the Data Object meaning a single piece of data, or a collection of data. In this article we will show you how to specify the Data Object to be a collection in Visual Paradigm.
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