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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Installing and Removing Floating License Service

You can install floating license server as a Windows service, the floating license server will result in automatically starting up when you start Windows. On the other hand, you can remove this service as you don’t want it to be started when you start Windows. This article will show how to install and then remove floating license service. Normally this can be done by execute the install_service and remove_service script inside the scripts folder under the floating license server installation directory. But if you experienced problem on running these 2 scripts, probably it is caused by some configuration issue on your machine. This article will show how to overcome this problem and to install and remove floating license server service.

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Reverse Database without Overwritting Entities

When you reverse database, you will find all existing entities are overwritten in the project. This article is going to teach you how to solve this problem.

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Setting up Floating License Server as System Service on Mac OS X

You can setup floating license server as Mac OS X system service, the floating license server will result in automatically start up when you start Mac OS X. This article will show how to set up setup floating license server as Mac OS X system service.

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Import Diagram into Teamwork Project

When you are working as a team member, the designs (diagrams) you draw in your project will be committed to server and will also be visible to other people in the team. Sometimes, you want to sketch out new ideas but without having them visible to other people as the sketches are just raw designs. One good way to perform sketching is to do it in a new project rather than the working one. At the end, import the needed part(s) back to the teamwork project and commit it to server to make it visible to others.

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Using BPMN Pool and Lane in Business Process Diagram (BPD)

In BPMN, swimlane is divided into types, pool and lane. A pool represents a participant who takes part in a process. It is a rectangular container that can contain flow objects vertically or horizontally, such as task and activity.  On the other hand, a lane is a graphical sub-division in a pool. It is often used to organize and categorize activities within a pool according to function or role.
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Understanding BPMN Choreography Model

Choreography model is one of the types of models to specify choreographies in BPMN. It consists of choreography tasks and sub-processes and common BPMN elements, such as, gateways and events. In this article, you can study what choreography is and then learn how to draw a business process diagram with choreography tasks.

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Criteria: Retrieve Database Record in Object-Oriented Way

In this page, we will demonstrate the use of criteria in retrieving records from database. Before we talk about criteria, let’s study the traditional way of retrieving database record through JDBC.

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