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Define and describe business operations, definitions and constraints by text with intelligent business rule text editor.

Relate glossary terms and design business structure by fact diagrams. Fact diagram supports attributes, unary fact type, binary fact type and n-ary fact type.

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You can use label to group your glossary terms. One term can have multiple labels and you can filter glossary terms by label.
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Grid diagram gives another perspective of your project file. You can browse your design in tabular format and configure showing which columns.
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Increase or decrease Agilian application font size to fit to your usage.
Save diagramming time by create connecting objects with multiple turning points at once.
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Reference to A³ Platform's activities, issues and requirements easily. Open the referenced A³ Platform resources by just a few mouse clicks.

Every element in VP project has a unique URL. You can send the URL to your colleagues to locate the target elements easily.

View sub-project diagrams in the master project without switching project back and forthth.

Automatic copy reference project model elements to current project. All model element members and properties will be copied at the same time.

Reuse Visio diagram with UML diagrams by importing Visio Drawing to Stencil.
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ID box position:

Freely place ID label to anywhere or place the ID label in per-defined 8 direction.
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Showing shape name in different angle:
Flexible caption placement options for different diagram layout.
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Automatic restore connection end point between expanded and collapsed shapes.

Capture detailed steps and flows with intuitive flow of events editor. One use case can contain many flow of events to specify different scenarios. The latest version supports inserting actors, use cases and requirements to flow of events editor as linkages.

Design a tailor-made report with report writer. The follow movie demonstrates how to use Agilian report writer to prepare a report.

Design your own report template with visual template designer. The latest version has added a lot of customizable elements and increased in usability. The following movie shows you how to use report template designer to design your own report template.

Compare diagrams visually with visual diff. Export result of comparison to PDF file for documentation purpose.

Agilian supports exporting and importing Microsoft Excel file. Excel is the best tool for mass editing of model element names and properties. You may export diagram to Excel file, edit their names and properties in tabular format, and then import the changes back to Agilian. The following screenshots demonstrate how to export and import Excel file.
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Sequence diagram shows interaction between users, systems and sub-systems, and emphasize the ordering of time of messages. You can draw sequence diagram solely by mouse or with keyboard shortcuts.
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Line Jump Options:
When drawing a complex diagram with many shapes and connectors, connectors may intersect with each other. Line jump feature is design for decorating the intersection, which makes it easier to identify connection paths. Agilian supports arc, gap and square line jump options. The following screenshot shows all line jump options and you can try different line jump in left hand side pane.

Analysis diagram helps to identify full consequences of changes before you really make changes. Analysis diagram visualize all related model elements. You can further analyse specific model element by clicking the analyse resource icon. The following flash demo demonstrates how to use analysis diagram to do impact analysis.

Agilian can export diagrams into several image formats, such as JPG, PNG, SVG and EMF. The following screenshots show how to export Agilian diagrams to image files.

Agilian supports generating design blueprints to PDF files. The paper size, cover page design, TOC, page header and footer are all customizable. You may select to include/exclude diagrams and model elements, and reorder the content. There are various options to control the styles and formatting of the generated PDF. The PDF generation feature is available in Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and Unix platform.

Communicate and document business workflow with worldwide standards, BPMN 2.0. Agilian supports BPMN 2.0 notations with some advanced modeling features like animacian, visual diff, impact analysis and more.
Visually simulate the execution of business process diagram. Instances of pool and lane, required resources and activities' durations are adjustable for process improvement.
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State machine diagram represents a state machine. State machine diagram shows flow of control from state to state within single object. Common state diagram contains simple states, composite states, composite states, transitions, events and actions.
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Event-driven process chain diagram (EPC diagrams) is kind of business process diagram diagram. EPC diagram contains events, functions, operators, organization units, flows and information resources. A typical event-driven process chain diagram is shown in following screenshot.

Class diagram is the most widely used diagram in modeling object-oriented system. A class diagram shows a set of classes, interfaces, associations and generalizations. Package is commonly used model element for organizing elements in class diagram. Class diagrams are not just for visualizing and documenting structure models but also for constructing executable system.
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