Business Process Visual ARCHITECT 3.1 Release Notes

Release Date: September 21, 2009

Support BPMN 2.0 notations

Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a flow-chart based notation for visualizing business process. Business Process Visual ARCHITECT supports BPMN version 2.0 notations.

BPEL generation

Business Process Visual ARCHITECT supports create, edit, visualize and generate Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) and Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The generated BPEL and WSDL can deploy to standard BPEL engine such as Apache ODE.

Report template designer

Visual report template designer provides designing and customizing report template. You can design looping order of diagrams, diagram element and property values.

Voice documentation

Express your thought and detail with voice documentation feature. Voice documentation lets you records or link any audio recording to all model elements in your project.

Glossary grid

Business Process Visual ARCHITECT provides a glossary grid to assist business analyst and system analyst to identify, document and manage terms and definitions in a particular domain. Glossary grid provides tabular user interface for creating and managing terms. Filter and quick search functions are provided for locating terms easily. One glossary term can define multiple aliases. Other than creating terms one by one in glossary grid, analyst can use textual analysis and use case flow of events editor to extract glossary terms. All glossary terms will be highlighted and linked in both textual analysis and flow of events editor.

Matrix

Matrix provides a macro view of relationships and dependencies between set of model elements. You can visualize dependency relationships of specific group of classes in the project before making changes.

Analysis Diagram

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.

Support mirror model element from dependent project

Mirror model elements feature are similar to reference model elements feature that allows visualizing model elements from other projects. The referenced model element will not keep a local copy of the model element in the project and not allow adding child to the model elements. Mirror model elements feature keeps copies of the model elements in local project and allows adding child model elements to the mirrored model elements.

Identify business process elements using textual analysis

Reference other project model elements

Support more options in find model element dialog box

Automatic sweep process after insert task

  • Supported duplicating models from linked project as models in current project (bring along also the dependencies)
  • Enhanced report generation to support model and diagram based children table content
  • Fixed business process group is not available in report writer
  • Fixed open report writer ask for dependent project location
  • Fixed inconsistent font size in generated report
  • Fixed Word report unable to handle hyperlink in documentation properly
  • Fixed moving freehand arrow increases bounding box's size
  • Fixed images in Word report look blur
  • Fixed import XMI 2.1 produces array index out of bounds exception
  • Fixed tagged values in association end not handled in XMI import/export
  • Fixed increasing CPU consumption when reselecting dependent project
  • Fixed convert pool to subprocess loss containment
  • Fixed missing Duplicate popup menu for element referenced from dependent project
  • Fixed Polish characters in header/footer in Word report cannot be shown properly
  • Fixed Polish characters are not shown properly in HTML/PDF report
  • Fixed deleting element not refresh documentation pane
  • Fixed unable to convert pool to subprocess
  • Fixed transit diagram to root not put transited element to root