Perform Real-time Collaboration with your VP Online Artifacts

Visual Paradigm Online is a cloud base design platform which allow users create different diagrams, infographics, printables, web graphics, etc… and perform real-time collaboration on design works. In this article you will learn how to share your artifacts to your team for co-editing.

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Fix Project Publisher Generate Blurry Diagram Image Problem

When try to output your project with large diagram using Project Publisher you may found it looks blurry. This is because by default Project Publisher will limit the size of the generated diagram image to maximum 4096 x 4096 px. If your diagram is larger than this size then the exported image will being scaled thus making the content looks blurry. To override this default setting:

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The Usage of BPMN Gateways

Gateways is a BPMN notation used to control how a process flows. Connected by sequence flows, a gateway acts as a decision point that decides which (outgoing) sequence flow to take based on the result of the evaluation of condition(s) specified. According to the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)’s definition, only sequence flow will affect the flow of activities while message flow does not. If you want to know message flow usage, please see How does BPMN message flow work? article. In this article, we will show you the different types of gateways and their behavior using the BPMN modeler featured by Visual Paradigm.

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Why isn’t my license upgraded to the latest version despite having active maintenance?

If your Visual Paradigm license is covered by active maintenance, you will be eligible for an upgrade to the latest version. But sometimes, you may find your license remains not upgraded even though the maintenance is active. Why is it so?

The license used by John Doe not being upgrade even covered form maintenance

The license used by John Doe is not upgraded even though the license is covered by active maintenance.

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Specification Dialog Hang on macOS Big Sur

On macOS 11 Big Sur open the diagram or model specification dialog may cause the application hang. The root cause is the Big Sur changed some behaviour on handling of non-modal dialog when application is run in full screen mode and this change affect most of the Java applications including Visual Paradigm. The following patch build solved this problem by turning the specification dialog to become modal by default.

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Setup VP Server System Service on MS Windows

By setup VP Server as system service it will automatically starts when the machine boots. This avoid the VP Server need to manually start by user before using it. In this article we will show you how to setup the VP Server as Windows system service.

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Share Models between Class Diagram and Sequence Diagram

A class diagram shows a set of classes, interfaces and their relationships and illustrates the static design view of a system, while a sequence diagram shows the sequence of actions that occurs in a system and illustrates the dynamic view of a system. With Visual Paradigm Desktop, you can easily share the models between class diagram and sequence diagram. The changes that made in the sequence diagram can be automatically added to the class diagram as well and vice versa.

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Output Element’s Layer Information using Doc. Composer

In Visual Paradigm you can put your diagram elements into different layers. This allows you to partition your diagram data into different levels and present them only when needed. Starting from version 16.1 build 20200630ax Visual Paradigm now support output element’s layer information into document. In this article we will teach you how to create custom template to output this information.

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Unable to upgrade Visual Paradigm to new version

I do have a valid license but being prompted I’m not entitle to upgrade to newer version:

Visual Paradigm Update complain user not entitle to run new version

Visual Paradigm Update complain user not entitle to run new version

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Configure VP Server Update Module only provide update on specific build

tomcat-thumbVP Server providing the update server module which helps to host the product update. The update module will constantly check for update from Visual Paradigm’s download site.  By configure user’s Visual Paradigm client performing update via the update server, the colleagues are guarantee to be running the product on the same build. But for some company they want their colleague run on a fixed build rather than the latest one, you can then follow the procedure below to configure the update server only provide update on specific build number of Visual Paradigm. Read more