DB Visual ARCHITECT 5.2 Release Notes

Release Date:January 11, 2010

Generate PHP Doctrine persistent layer

Generate UML class diagram to PHP Doctrine object-relational mapping framework.

Automatic translation

Translate database design to different languages automatically.

Design UML Profile

Design and manage UML profile visually with profile diagram.

Project management properties

Add project management properties to diagrams and model elements to indicate the stage of design.

Automatic expand diagram margin

Maintain margins in diagram against the growth of design.

Handy association editing

Specify and apply all association properties at once without going through a series of dialog box.

  • Added button on top of diagram toolbar for turning resource icons on and off
  • Reduced time need to open report generator dialog box when working with large projects
  • Repositioned documentation and transitor resource icons to avoid overlapping with shape name
  • Repositioned PK and FK to top of column list when synchronize from class diagram to entity relationship diagram
  • Optimized format of exported Excel for effective tagged values modeling
  • Made connector created by resource centric auto relocate to avoid overlapping with other connector
  • Improved quality of image in document in report writer
  • Supported showing list of templates instead of grids in report writer
  • Supported specifying doxygen and doxyfile in C++ instant reverse
  • Supported NetBeans 6.8 for DBVA and integrations
  • Supported multiple source directory in instant reverse
  • Supported getting back to parent project if switched to linked project by diagram navigator
  • Supported entering multi-line text on freehand shape
  • Supported generating foreign key on SQLite
  • Supported opening specification for multiple find result (multiple element nodes)
  • Supported exporting comments of element in excel
  • Supported configuring workspace and project stereotype
  • Supported reversing multiple DDL files
  • Fixed file chooser not showing shortcuts
  • Fixed unable to create new list item in table cell in documentation editor
  • Fixed children classes are out of package when move parent package with diagram zoomed out
  • Fixed nested documentation is not correctly generated in PDF and Word report
  • Fixed duplicated class being created in model explorer resulted by a commit action
  • Fixed left press Alt+letter failed to enter Polish characters in Note shape in Mac OS X
  • Fixed character may miss out in callout shape
  • Fixed copying and pasting of html documentation losing alignment
  • Fixed comments of table/column are not reversed from DDL
  • Fixed exporting XMI 1.0 and 1.2 not including stereotype from referenced project
  • Fixed synchronize from entity relationship diagram to class diagram not enforce role name to start with lower case
  • Fixed a word report generation problem which makes the generated report not open-able
  • Fixed instant reverse PHP missing extends and implements
  • Fixed sequence flow detach from task after several zoom actions
  • Fixed font size of documentation in report writer is inconsistent with HTML source
  • Fixed unable to save data to Postgre as bytea with generated ORM code
  • Fixed application may hang when resizing a callout shape
  • Fixed performance issue caused by selecting all shapes on diagram and move them together
  • Fixed an error caused by reversing C# DLL by instant reverse
  • Fixed bad positioning of connector caption when create