Identifying Build Number of Visual Paradigm

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build-num-thumbWhen 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?

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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?

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Use Case 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

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SQL ServerUpon 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

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tomcat-thumbIt 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

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tomcat-thumbVP 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

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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

Unable to run Visual Paradigm due to lack of Java

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Creating Data Object Collection in Business Process Diagram

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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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How to integrate Visual Paradigm with Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)

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Visual Paradigm Eclipse 4.4 Luna Integration
Visual Paradigm supports integrate the visual modeling environment with Eclipse, providing full software development life cycle support to you when you running with Eclipse. But with latest Eclipse 4.4 you may found that the Visual Paradigm related menus are not being show up in Eclipse even you successfully performed the integration. This problem is caused by the latest Eclipse 4.4 discontinued some of their API and extension points, which affecting the integration. This article will teach you how to integrate Visual Paradigm with Eclipse 4.4 Luna.

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How to upgrade VP-UML/Logizian/Agilian (Single Seat License) with VPository to Visual Paradigm [Obsolete]

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This article is out-dated. Please refer to How to upgrade Visual Paradigm (with Single Seat License) to New Version for details about how to update your single seat licensed Visual Paradigm to latest version.

coverOver the years, Visual Paradigm International Ltd. has delivered lifecycle visual modeling platforms in order to help our customers to build quality software applications faster, better and cheaper, including the three major product series: Visual Paradigm for UML (VP-UML), Logizian and Agilian. In version 11.1, we amalgamated them to become one single product and has renamed it into Visual Paradigm which is the same as our corporation. Thanks to the Visual Paradigm Software Maintenance, you can upgrade to Visual Paradigm without extra cost as long as your license is within the maintenance period. This article below will teach you how to upgrade your single seat VP-UML/Logizian/Agilian license with VPository to Visual Paradigm, the new product.

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