Release Date: January 29, 2008
Nowadays, information flows throughout the world. When working with DB-VA, we may have many modelers and clients from different countries, one language can never cater to all people. It is impossible to create many projects with different languages for all models and clients. However, this problem can be easily solved by assigning Nickname to a model.
Model Transitor is designed to create and manage transitions among model elements. One may add transitions between model elements, and trace the origin and end. This gives a rapid way of navigating between model elements.
When modeling projects, we sometimes use Callout Shape to perform Annotation for reminding our team members. Besides usage of words, Freehand Shape can help annotating models. We can draw shapes and paths to visually divide the diagrams into different sectors, or to organize the shapes in the diagrams, etc.
Annotation is an extra information, such as comments, notes, explanation, or other type of external mark that describes a model. Sometimes, annotation is an effective way to edit and review work in a work group environment. For instance, you may annotate a model for asking your group mate to confirm your changes.
Perforce is a Software Configuration Management system which lets developers manage the changes they made when developing software. All Visual Paradigm client products are integrated with Perforce to facilitate collaborative modeling. Your team can use Perforce repository to store project files, keep track of changes and perform modeling concurrently.
While the traditional approaches provide more comprehensive way for moving , copying and reordering through accessing dialog boxes and pressing special keys. All these can now be done by simply drag-and-drop - press on a member (or members), drag them to somewhere else to achieve moving, copying and reordering.
In order to avoid complex design, you may want to break down a model and present it in different diagrams base on different contexts. Model sharing is designed to serve this purpose. You may create multiple views in different diagrams from a model. The properties of the views will clearly preserved as they belong to the same model.
In this release, several enhancements have been introduced to the Report Writer to increase the stability and make it more customizable. One of the remarkable change is the advancement of Report Engine, which improve the stability and performance. Besides, standalone products such as VP-UML, Agilian and DB-VA now supports switching between the main application and the Report Writer, making it able to perform modeling and report editing simultaneously.