Why the modification on a newly created element will reflect to an existing model element?

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Visual Paradigm’s modeling tools are running in share model basis. This is meaning that a single model element can appear on different diagrams, or even on the same diagram multiple times (we call it the “views”). Changing the model element on one of the view will automatically reflected to other views. But sometimes you can may found that when you make changes on a new model element, changes also applied to other elements in your project, which is not what you looking for. There are 2 possibilities for this problem to be happen: Read more

How to Make Referenced File Accessible under Different Environments

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00-file-ref-accessible-thumbThe file reference feature provides a handy way for you to associate your design with whatever kind of external files, to aid in the explanation and studying of design. You can make a UML use case link to a set of requirement specification, make an entity in ERD link to a scanned copy of order form, make an activity in business process diagram link to a document of instruction, etc.

Knowing that different people may store the same files in different places, in order to make the referenced files accessible in any environment, one can define a user path to the folder where the files are stored. Users can replace the user path themselves to make the file reference accessible in their own environments. Read more

How-to and Why Control the Visibility of Connectors in ERD when Reverse Database

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00-erd-conn-thumbThe reverse database tool of VP-UML provides a handy approach to instantly convert a relational database into an ERD, to aid in the studying of database structure, entities properties and their inter-relationships.

Being able to study a database with an ERD is great because ERD is so easy to read and understand. However, the relationships among entities may increase the complexity of diagram when there are many entities and are highly coupled. If you just want to focus on seeing the database tables and their columns, but not pretty much interested in their inter-relationship, you can optionally form an ERD database diagram with solely entities, without including their relationships. In this article, you will see how to form an ERD from a MS SQL database, with just entities showing in the diagram. You will also learn how to optionally show the relationships.

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How to Perform Code Engineering with VP-UML and Eclipse on Mac OS X

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A great software design lead to a great piece of software product. With the help of VP-UML, Mac users can design software system on their Mac easily. What’s more, VP-UML’s supports both code generation and reverse engineering, which aid in the seamless transition between software design and source code. Its Hibernate support also makes database application development much easier by producing the object layer (both library and code) essential in building a database application in an object-oriented fashion. In this article, we will demonstrate the various ways of source code generation with VP-UML. Eclipse IDE will be used at the parts that involve coding.

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How to Re-use Business Process Modeled in Another Project

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00-reuse-business-process-thumbWhen you are modeling business processes with business process diagrams, you may find that although the business processes are different and yield different goals, many of them are indeed sharing the same set of workflow. For example, both the process of ordering and returning goods share the same packaging and delivery processes. These common workflow share the same behaviors and activities, so it is wise to “draw once and re-use everywhere”, not just to save time, but to ensure the consistency of business process by keeping one and only one copy of unique workflow. Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) supports grouping related process flow to sub-process. With BPMN sub-process, you can easily re-use the common process flows in different business processes by incorporating the sub-process shape, which contains the common workflows, into those business process diagrams.

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How to Upgrade Teamwork Server to New Version

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The Teamwork Server is a central repository for performing team collaborative development on your UML, business process, database design and enterprise architecture projects which is done with Visual Paradigm’s modeling software. In order to perform team collaborative development, both the client modeling software as well as the server need to be run in the same version. This article will teach you how to upgrade your Teamwork Server v5.3 or later (a module of VP Server) into new version. Read more

Featured: FREE Cloud Storage for Collaborative Software Modeling

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VPository is a cloud-based collaboration platform launched by Visual Paradigm on June, 2013. The enterprise-strength collaborative platform provides software development teams with 1 GB FREE storage to store their software design. Team members can access VPository to checkout the projects they need and start working on them. Click on the links below to learn more about VPository.

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact the Visual Paradigm support team.

How to Assign Entities in ERD Database Designer to a Schema?

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00-erd-schema-thumbVisual Paradigm for UML (VP-UML) comes with an ERD database designer where database developers can model physical database with Entity Relationship Diagram. The database designer supports popular database constructs like database table (called Entity in VP-UML), View, Sequence, Stored Procedure, Trigger, etc, supporting the need of database modeling for any kind of database management systems.

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How to Locate a Model Element in Model Explorer from a View?

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Locate model element in model explorer
You may have a big project, with hundred, thousand, or even more model elements in it. When you are working primarily on a diagram and you want to know the model hierarchy of certain shape, a possible way would be to find out the model element in the Model Explorer and view the hierarchy there. But with so many model elements listed in Model Explorer, how do you effectively locate the model element you want? In this article, we will show you how.

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Welcome to Visual Paradigm Know-how

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UML, business process modeling, software development and project management technique sharing website. Visual Paradigm Know-how is a website for Visual Paradigm development team share knowledge and technique of Visual Paradigm product.