DB Visual ARCHITECT 4.4 Service Pack 1 Release Notes
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Preview Local and Server Changes before Commit or Update
When working collaboratively as a team, we often need to know how our work may affects the others work, or vice versa. Visual Paradigm team collaboration support lets you know the changes that will occur in project when attempting to committing or updating works. In this release, you also can preview the changes.
Defining, Configuring and Applying Design Patterns
In VP Suite 3.4 Service Pack 1, there are lots of enhancements in our design pattern support, which gives you higher flexibility in defining patterns. For example, you can define cloneable classes as well as implementation hierarchies. With the enhancements, you can define and apply Gang of Four design patterns to designs effectively.
Sharing Design Patterns with Team Members
In many development scenarios, we often need to reuse, refine, elaborate and transcribe an portion of diagram, known as a design patterns, during the development process or in between development phases. Design pattern can be defined by designing the pattern in a diagram, and saving it as a pattern file. Now, it can be shared across the team easily through the team collaboration support. Users in a team just need a few mouse actions to grab a pattern file created by another member, and reuse on their own design.
Reduce Space by Attracting Shapes using Magnet
In a diagram, there may be gaps that make the diagram too loose and hard to read. To reduce those gaps, Magnet tool can be used. Magnet tool can be used to attract shapes, such that unnecessary spaces can be reduced.
Word Wrap Support
With word wrap support, shape names are fit into the size of shapes and with line-break added. This ensures the names to show completely without ruining the diagram due to the long names.
Transit Entity Relationship Diagrams from Conceptual to Logical, from Logical to Physical
There are three types of ERDs: the conceptual, the logical, and the physical, which support modeling of data in three levels of abstraction from conceptual data model to implementation of a specific database. Starting from this new release, Visual Paradigm allows transition between these three levels models as well as to support traceability between them. You may create Conceptual Model and refine it into a logical model that are independent on any DBMS.
Customizable Program Shortcuts
Within any Visual Paradigm products, commands can be invoked by pressing certain keys in the keyboard, as shortcuts. For example, holding down the Ctrl modifier key with the 'S' key invokes the save command. Now, key bindings, which is the assignment of keys to commands, can be customized. This permits you to use the familiar keystroke for invoking commands in VP.
Creating Stereotyped Model Type Using Diagram Toolbar
Stereotypes is extensibility mechanisms in UML which allows designers to extend the vocabulary of UML in order to create new model elements. By applying appropriate stereotypes in your model you can make the specification model comprehensible.
Show / Hide Shapes by Stereotype
The Show and Hide Diagram Element feature was introduced in the previous version, allowed user to show only those elements on the diagram pane which they are interested for performing some operations more conveniently in a temporary state. In this release, the Show/Hide Diagram Element feature is enhanced to let you show or hide diagram elements that extend a particular stereotype.
- Supported setting encoding for Instant Reverse C++
- Supported importing Erwin model definition as documentation
- Supported importing Erwin notes as comments
- Supported including DB column's unique value in generated reports
- Set shape as master view moves model element to current view structure
- Allowed dragging diagram from Model Explorer to diagram
- Allowed defining name for URL reference
- Supported operations' Raised Exceptions, Preconditions and Postconditions in Report Writer
- Enforce XML import not to overwrite project's master view assignment (unless a model element has no view defined)
- Support using vector graphics for stereotypes icon
- Supported Russian encoding for exporting image as PDF file
- Supported displaying FK column information in HTML, PDF and Word report's Columns table under ERD
- Fixed unable to remove linebreak in note content
- Fixed drag and drop shape from Model Explorer wrongly set view as master view
- Fixed cannot edit Callout if it is grouped with other shapes
- Fixed missing caption for shapes in exported PNG (with background)
- Fixed diagram crash when creating generalization from ORM Persistable class through resource centric interface
- Fixed undo deletion of shapes not restore master view assignment
- Fixed cannot reverse destructor in IR for C++
- Fixed publisher's new engine failed to produce documentation that matches the old engine in terms of style
- Fixed SVN not work with German project name
- Fixed Instant Reverse C++ missing template information
- Fixed from/to lazy loading option in association specification not saved
- Fixed publisher output not apply UTF-8 as charset if published via new engine
- Fixed diagram option 'Auto Fit Size' not work well on pasted models
- Fixed unable to publish project if selected not to generate documentation in model
- Fixed wrongly generated field length for blob on DB2 when length is 0
