Business Process Visual ARCHITECT 4.0 Release Notes
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Write Business Rule
Define and describe business operations, definitions and constraints by text with intelligent business rule text editor.
Draw Fact Diagram
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.
Group glossary term by label
You can use label to group your glossary terms. One terms can have multiple labels and you can filter glossary terms by label.
Commit partial changes to server
Commit part of local modification to VP Teamwork Server
Protect diagrams by password
Avoid unauthorized changes by locking diagrams with password.
Browse Tasks by grid
Grid diagram gives another perspective of your project file. You can browse your design in tabular format and configure showing which columns.
Adjust application font size
Increase or decrease Business Process Visual ARCHITECT application font size to fit to your usage.
Create connectors with turning points
Save diagramming time by create connecting objects with multiple turning point at once.
A³ Platform integration
Reference to A³ Platform's activities, issues and requirements easily. Open the referenced A³ Platform resources by just few mouse clicks.
Support URL for all shapes
Every element in VP project has a unique URL. You can send the URL to your colleagues to locate the target elements easily.
Browse dependent project diagrams
View sub-project diagrams in the master project without switch project back and fore.
Duplicate model elements from reference project
Automatic copy reference project model elements to current project. All model element members and properties will copy at the same time.
Import Visio diagram as Stencil
Reuse Visio diagram with UML diagrams by importing Visio Drawing to Stencil.
Place ID box in any position
Freely place ID label to anywhere or place the ID label in per-defined 8 direction.
Show shape name in different angle
Flexible caption placement options for different diagram layout.
Remember expanded and collapsed connection points
Automatic restore connection end point between expanded and collapsed shapes.
- Supported more dictionaries
- Supported word wrap in documentation editor for plain text
- Supported more same width/height options
- Supported matrix diagram in report writer
- Supported customizing highlight color of candidates in textual analysis
- Supported exporting reference model by ExportXML batch
- Supported configuring 'referenced by' for shapes
- Supported remapping pool or lane view to another pool or lane model element
- Supported reattaching connector's end in auxiliary view to another shape
- Supported opening multiple project from Teamwork Client
- Supported filtering content for publisher outcome
- Supported matrix in report template
- Improved association caption's position when adjusting association
- Improved shapes' positioning against zooming
- Improved layout of matrix diagram's configuration panel
- Improved Japanese translation support
- Provided easier way to create matrix diagram from elements on a diagram
- Changed BP-VA's default ERD data model from Physical to Conceptual
- Made BP Group able to contain common shapes like callout
- Fixed class description of candidate is not converted to text of requirement by drag-and-drop
- Fixed profile not included in exported XMI
- Fixed missing documentation for textual analysis in report
- Fixed BPMN ID for data association is not exported to Excel
- Fixed bad layer support in project publisher outcome
- Fixed incorrect image size for publisher outcome when publish via batch
- Fixed broken EMF image when exporting in Linux
- Fixed incomplete HTML documentation content presented in report writer
- Fixed bad text annotation default size if create by resource-centric interface
- Fixed broken lane may be created from textual analysis
- Fixed BP-VA failed to restore auto saved project
- Fixed missing association between actor and use case when create use case from BPD
- Fixed unable to open A3 Platform link
- Fixed unable to import BPD from Visio
- Fixed a Mac OS X startup issue