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January 29, 2008
Visual Paradigm for UML 6.2
Visual Paradigm International Limited today announced the release of Visual Paradigm for UML (VP-UML) 6.2, an award winning UML CASE Tool.

In this release, it has a number of new features including the support of Mind Mapping Diagram for organizing ideas and thoughts, increased effects for publisher published Web contents, more robust annotation support via Callout and Freehand shape, creating translated copies of model through the use of Nicknamer, support defining Requirement types and displaying in Tabular view and Perforce integration. In addition, Report Writer has been upgraded to use a newer version of engine, which makes it much stable than before and support editing both the model and report simultaneously.
What's New?
Mind mapping diagrams
Mind Mapping Diagram is a simple, yet powerful diagram to help organize concepts and ideas through a visual note-taking approach. By presenting ideas in a networked form, user can develop precise ideas much easier.
There is no restriction on the usage of Mind Mapping Diagram. It can be used for making business decisions, preparing meeting agenda, story planning or any aspects of our lives that require effective thinking.
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Nicknamer for assigning different names and documentation to specific model elements
Nowadays, information flows throughout the world. When working with VP-UML, 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.
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Enhanced Requirement Modeling
In this version, users can define their own Requirement types by giving a type name and defining a set of type-specific attributes. Besides, it is also possible to present Requirements in Tabular form, which provides user with a different perspective of viewing the Requirements. User can concentrate more on the differences between Requirements by comparing their attributes? values in table easily.
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Traceability support using Model Transitor
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.
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Freehand shapes
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.
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Callout shapes
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.
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Team collaboration with Perforce
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.
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Drag-and-drop copying, moving and reordering of classes and entity members
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.
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Open view from model elements
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.
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What's Enhanced?
Revamped Report Writer
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.
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Enhanced Business Process Modeling
In this release, many major and minor enhancements are made to the business process modeling related features. The most remarkable ones are automatic Pool stretching and smart connector routing. Automatic Pool stretching reduces time and effort in resizing Pools and Lanes, while smart connector routing reduces time and effort for re-routing connectors. With those enhancements, time spend on modeling can be reduced drastically.
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Enhancements and Bug Fixes
Enhancements
Showed vertical lines to represent active instance for instance spec. whose first classifier is an active class
Provided before / after a given date in DateExpression on Criteria
Changed Handi-Selection's behavior to not to include the selected object if it is a container
Added several missing method calls in Open API such as toConnectorsCount() and fromConnectorsCount
Supported setting column length for My SQL database tables in database generation
Supported alignment for contents in report cover page
Supported showing Text Annotation content in Subprocess's expanded view
Bug Fixes
Fixed Word report incorrect font properties
Fixed C# Instant Generator incorrect association class handling
Fixed inserting image into documentation cause line break to be removed
Fixed ORM code generation does not function when destination directory composed of non-English characters
Fixed several auto-layout problems in diagram
Fixed several issues related to documentation content editing
Fixed unable to remove column for table in documentation pane
Fixed application hang when performing auto-saving while opening the use case details editor
Fixed 'Delete without deleting child' doesn't work for BP Pool
Fixed annotations for EJB 3 are incorrectly generated with the unique and nullable arguments
Fixed Timing Frame doesn't move when being selected beforehand
Fixed running undo in BPD may cause incorrect Z-Order for some shapes
Fixed PHP ORM unable to save objects
Fixed type modifier for attribute wasn't handled in Java Instant Generator
Fixed bad BPD diagram content when converted from BPMN Pool
Fixed BPMN lane vanish after save and reopen project
Fixed incorrect Pool size when work under non 100% zoom ratio
Fixed failed to generate Word report warned by Object reference not set
Fixed invalid toString method content for criteria class
Fixed delete partition cause connector connect to no where
Fixed several undo/redo problems in activity diagram
Fixed unable to generate ORM caused by null FK
Fixed several issues related to multiplicity in UML2 Profile XMI
Fixed .NET ORM didn't support abstract class
Fixed Objective C Instant Generator generated string array as id
Fixed incorrect table margin in MS Word report
Fixed ORM mapping file didn't recognize decimal as NHibernate decimal
Fixed synchronize from ERD to Class Diagram did not auto. set attribute type in ORM Component class
Fixed undesired form diagram behavior after Java Round-Trip
Fixed incorrect parameter value for App.config file's relativeExpiration parameter in generated .NET ORM mapping file
Fixed export report in Report Writer cause the project to point to the exported document file
Fixed C++ Instant Generator failed to generate inner enumerator
Fixed .NET ORM namespaces bugs caused by cases of letter
Fixed ORM Component attribute not synchronize to ERD in Subclass
Fixed incorrectly generated "null=null" in mapping file caused by not defining discriminator column and value when using Table per Subclass as Inheritance Strategy
Fixed PDF report generation unable to function when project is very big in size
Fixed Textual Analysis missing highlight after switched diagram
Fixed an issue related to missing Note formating when copying content from external source
Fixed an issue related to unable to init the PersistentManager in C# ORM
Fixed copy Combined Fragment to clipboard as image missing operand
Fixed incorrect highlighting for Textual Analysis in reports
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