Solution to Installation Failure on Linux

When you fail to install your application on Linux, it is because the installer you downloaded doesn’t fit with your OS. For instance, you are using 64 bits Linux, but you installed 32 bits installer. You will probably see the following screenshot that shows you fail to install the application:

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Solution to the Failure of Commiting/ Updating Project with SVN on Window 7 and Window 2008 Server [Obsolete]

Team collaboration development on SVN had been discontinued starting from Visual Paradigm version 13.0

Since the file system of Window 7 and Window 2008 Server has been changed recently, thereby, you may encounter difficulties of committing or updating your project with SVN. What you can resolve the problem directly is to disable indexing. In this page, you can learn how to disable indexing when you fail to commit or update project with SVN on Window 7 and Window 2008 Server.

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How to Report Bug for Visual Paradigm

When you are using Visual Paradigm, and find a problem, feel free to contact Visual Paradigm to seek for assistance. Remember, the more information you give us, the easier and faster for us to identify the problem, fix the problem and provide a proper solution. In most cases, the log file, project file, steps, screenshot and product information are essential for us to identify problem.

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Find out the Type of Version Server You Are Using [Obsolete]

Team collaboration development on CVS, SVN, Perforce and ClearCase had been discontinued starting from Visual Paradigm version 13.0

Visual Paradigm supports performing team collaboration development over different version servers – the Visual Paradigm Teamwork Server, VPository (Teamwork Server on the cloud), Subversion, CVS, Preforce and ClearCase. Customers can choose their favorite versions of server for their tools lineup.

Knowing the type of version server is useful or sometimes essential*. However, as an end user, you may not know the type of version server you are using, just because someone had setup the environment for you. This article will show you how to find out the type of version server you are using.

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How to Configure HTTP Proxy for Subversion (SVN) [Obsolete]

This article is out-dated and the support of Subversion had been discontinued since version 13.0.

If your team uses Subversion server (SVN) to manage your work, and if your server has to use a proxy server to access the internet, you need to edit your servers configuration file to indicate the proxy to use. This article will show you how.

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How to Evaluate Different Editions of VP Products [Obsolete]

During evaluation you may want to try out different editions of the software to see which one fit for your needs. In the old version you can launch the Product Edition Manager to switch the edition of the installed software. Starting from version 10 SP1 release you can do this directly within the application. To switch the edition: Read more

How to Synchronize Requirements to A³ Platform

A3 Platform had been discontinued.

Visual Paradigm for UML (VP-UML) is designed to help you focus on your modeling work. So it purposely doesn’t overwhelm you with any information unnecessary in an immediate sense. To help you project manage your software development life cycle (SDLC), Visual Paradigm offers another product called A³ Platform to do just that.

One of the nice things about A³ Platform is that it can actually talk to VP-UML to get software design requirements and feed them to A³ Platform for setting project milestones automatically.

In this tutorial we will show you how to sync requirements from VP-UML to A³ Platform.

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Checkout project from SSL subversion server [Obsolete]

Team collaboration development on Subversion had been discontinued starting from Visual Paradigm version 13.0

This article teaches you how to checkout project from self singed SSL subversion server.

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Overview of Team Collaboration Support

Team collaboration development on CVS, SVN, Perforce and ClearCase had been discontinued starting from Visual Paradigm version 13.0

Visual Paradigm supports collaborative and concurrent modeling, and versioning of works in the following ways:

In this page, we will have an overview on how administrator and team members can work together with Visual Paradigm’s team collaborative features, and to clarify some of the major concepts in collaborative modeling.

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Organize Project Data with Model

Very often when a project was started for some time, a lot of model elements are created, and most of them are placed at root. This not only makes the searching of model elements become difficult, but it also slow down the application because Visual Paradigm tries to load all root level model elements on start up.

To solve the problem, it is recommended to keep the root clean by organizing project data with models or packages, while model is more preferred. When you right click on the project root in Model Structure tree in Project Browser, you can see the menu Model, which lets you create a model. Read more