Pin Specification Window in ERD

By pinning, users can read those specification window of various model elements consecutively, no longer have to close the previous specification window and open new specification dialog box repeatedly. Reading the specification window of different entities in ERD now becomes an easy task.

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Reusing ERD Entity in Business Process Diagram

With Logizian, you are allowed to re-use ERD entity in business process diagram. In this page, you will learn how to re-use entity in business process diagram by dragging and dropping.

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Resolving the Problem of Opening VP-UML in Eclipse via Launcher File

After you open SDE, you may wonder how come the system asks you to start SDE-EC. The main reason is that the projects in SDE and Eclipse are in direct proportion respectively. Normally, you should open Eclipse and create a Java project in advance. Since you open SDE in shortcut, the system thereby asks you to start SDE-EC again.

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Create Exception Pin in UML Activity Diagram

A pin in an UML activity diagram is used to provide values to actions and accept result from them. In this article, you can learn how to create an exception pin from an output pin which is responsible for keeping the output values produced by an action.

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Specify Default Fill color for Shapes

All the model elements in most diagrams are blue by default. In some cases, you may want to distinguish a specific model element, for instance, a note from others by setting a default color for it. In this article, we will demonstrate how to specify default fill color for a note in UML class diagram.

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Define and Specify Stereotype in Business Process Diagram (BPD)

A stereotype defines how a model element may be extended and enables the use of domain specific terminology or notation. The name of stereotype is enclosed by guillemets and placed above the name of model element, in addition, a specific icon can be defined for stereotype. In this article, you can learn to define and specify stereotype of a BPMN task in BPD.

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Import System Requirements from Excel

Agilian supports exporting and importing Microsoft Excel file. You can edit model element names and properties easily within Excel. This article is going to show you how to export requirement diagram to Excel file, edit properties and create a few more requirements in tabular format, and then import them back to Agilian.

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Visual Modeling with Mouse Gestures

Mouse gesture is one of the most useful visual modeling tools in all our VP products. It helps you to draw and manage your diagram with just a click of your mouse. Mouse gesture are mainly divided into three types: the drawing gesture, the command gesture and the connection gesture. This article will give a brief introduction of these three types of mouse gesture and another 11 basic gestures, and then show how to apply these three types of mouse gesture on the diagram.

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