New Features in VP-UML 8.3

What's New in Visual Paradigm for UML 8.3?

Release date: September 19, 2011View release notes

Enterprise Edition includes new features below

Brainstorm ideas, realize to design

Unlock the possibilities of impossibilities. Brainstorm ideas and freely post them on a board to fire up your thinking. Fly high with your creativity and stay grounded with our tool to realize them to design.

Professional Edition includes new features below

Eagle's Eye Preview of Glossary Change Impact, Sitting Down

Know the scope of potential impact. If you were to make changes to a glossary term in Glossary Grid, beforehand, see which model elements within your project share references to it all from one place. No sweat, no flying around to collect that information! With Impact Analysis, a few clicks will take you to a customized matrix populated with glossary terms (e.g. in rows) and model elements with links (e.g. in columns) showing their associations. If you want to zoom into a diagram where a specific model element comes from, no need to manually flip through files. Just click on the model element name right in the matrix. Vroom, there you go!

Flow of events editor

Flow of events sample with steps and extension

Document the interactions between user and system (function) using the flow of events editor. The robust editor enables you to enter the steps involved to complete a use case. You may document direct flow with or without extended flow. The editor also comes with a set of advanced tools to help you describe flows in detail. You may document conditional flow with if-then-else and looping clause, add actor/use case reference into the flow, generate report of flow, etc.

Tutorial

Writing Effective Use Case
Advanced Use Case Flow of Events Editing

User's Guide

Documenting flow of events

Online training

Document use case with use case detail (Free)

YouTube

Copy and Paste Function with Flow of Events

Know-how

How to add field to use case details?

Database generation

You can generate database schema (DDL) from Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD). Database generation engine generates full database initialization scripts and alter statements for updating existing databases. The latest version supports updating database constraint. The following movie shows how to generate database from ERD.

YouTube

How to generate DDL from your ERD

Standard Edition includes new features below

Flexible report composer

Convert your design to report by few mouse click. The generated report can preview and compare with the design side by side.

Tutorial

User's Guide

Report composer templates

Modeler Edition includes new features below

MS Excel file import and export

Visual Paradigm for UML 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 Visual Paradigm for UML. The following screenshots demonstrate how to export and import Excel file.

User's Guide

Importing Microsoft Excel file
Exporting diagrams to Microsoft Excel format

Know-how

Export class diagram to Excel and modify type

Clutter-Free Storage

Keep revisions of design diagrams and files in synch and organized.
Readily accessible for team members to file share.

Tutorial

Sharing Referenced Files in a Team-Based Environment

All editions includes new features below

Formatting shapes and connectors

You may format shapes and connectors in your drawing by changing their background color, foreground color, weight and font settings. Besides, there is a format copier function for replicating the format from one shape to others. The following movie shows how to set the format of shapes and connectors and how to use the format copier.