Release Date: July 17, 2009
There is ID property in Business Process elements (such as Task, Sub-process, Gateway) and Requirements. The ID property is unique within the project, and it can be visualized in diagram, export to image and report. The ID can be used for unique identify specific model element.
More and more modelers use the Animacian to do their presentation, export the animation to Macromedia Flash to Intranet. With Animacian, you can see how your design in action by selecting different execution paths. In the VP Suite 4.0 SP1, modeler can customize the color theme of the animation and tune the speed of the animation.
The context based diagram only show portion of entities and relationships which are related to the context. Modeler can show one entity in two diagrams (shared model) and changes of the entities will be visualized in two diagrams. Visual Paradigm introduce new completion support for shared model usage.
Sometimes, we want to compare the northern part of the diagram with the southern part of the diagram and skip the middle part. In VP Suite 4.0 SP1, there is split diagram function. Modeler can split the diagram vertically or horizontally.
In VP Suite 4.0 SP1, Visual Paradigm enhanced the MS Word report generation to support generate report in Word 2007 format and speed up the report generation process. In a very large project, the report generation speed improved more then 50%.
In VP Suite 4.0 SP1, the published project also support layer. The diagram viewer can show/hide layer(s) using browser. Just like modeler show/hide layer(s) in VP Suite.