Agilian 1.3 release notes

Traceability support using Diagram Transitor

Most of the software projects involve multiple development phases. Developers often like to touch up their requirements specification iteratively, while keep track of the linkages among diagrams between the development phases. Unfortunately, there's no easy mechanism to achieve these. With the introduction of Diagram Transitor, now developer can transcribe all the shapes and diagram elements from one diagram to another in one simple step. More importantly, all linkages among diagrams will be formed automatically for future reference, fully realized the true spirit of traceability advocated in UML 2 standard.

Import Rational Software Architect project file

Rational Software Architect (RSA) is a modeling and development environment for architectural design for C++, Java applications and web services using UML. In order to inherit the work from RSA, we now support importing of RSA project file for allowing the further modeling to be done on the imported file by using Agilian.

Copy diagram elements as XML

Have you ever thought about copying partial diagram contents of a large scale diagram from one software project to another for reuse and comparisons? Now you will be able to copy model elements as XML for later reuse in one simple step, further enhancing the interoperability and reusability of Agilian.

Introduce Event-driven Process Chain Diagram

Event-Driven Process Chain (EPC) Diagram is a widely used diagram which has been newly incorporated in the feature-rich Visual Paradigm Suite 3.3. EPC is the often used by process designers to illustrate the control of lower-level structure of a business process as a chain of events and functions with simplicity and easy-to understand notations.

Introduce Process Overview Diagram

Process Overview Diagram helps to draw a simple picture of processes in approaching a business goal. It is rather in an upper level of analyzing and understanding a business process. Process Overview Diagram has now been incorporated as one of the business process modeling diagrams in Visual Paradigm products.

Introduce Organization Chart

An Organization Chart is a diagram showing the structure of an organization, relationships and relative ranks in its part and jobs. It's very useful in understanding the relationships between departments or a group in a company. It's now being incorporated in Visual Paradigm products for business modeling.

Support smart layout in Mind Mapping Diagram

In a Mind Mapping Diagram, ideas could be stretched out across and becoming very untidy, difficult in tracing nodes and searching for ideas due to the unorganized nodes all over the place. Now no need to suffer from the painful and time consuming of re-arranging the idea nodes manually anymore! Don't wait, try this handy feature and experience our smart diagram layout in a breeze.

Share data object state in Business Process Diagram

Business Process Diagram (BPD) always contains Data Objects in different states. We enhanced the BPD to allow setting states for the Data Object models for showing the change of their state in business work flow modeling.

Enhance usability of Sequence Diagram

In Sequence Diagram, the duration message representing the time passage and is especially useful when modeling a real-time system. Now you are able to add time constraint on duration messages for specifying the time interval.

Enhance usability of Mind Mapping Diagram

Further enhanced the usability of the Mind Mapping Diagram, now you can simply switch the source nodes by drag-and-drop. Also, upon modeling, the node texts are always towards the central idea node, which results a better visual layout of the idea development.

Show 'Undo/Redo' action name

Undo and Redo are handy ways to cancel or restore the actions we've done in the project, but it may not be reliable to soly rely on our own memories of the actions done. Therefore, we enhance the tools to have the actions name shown in the Undo and Redo options.

Support more options in PDF, MS Word and HTML report generation

A report generated by the Report Engine maybe very long causing by the repeatitve model information due to the multiple model views. New option for report publishing is provide to eliminate these duplicated information. More options are also provided for enhancing the control of how the Rich Text Format (RTF) contents to be represented in the reports.

Supported updating Operations Parameters' properties via popup menu of operation (easier to edit)
Supported scaling cover page image in report to avoid printing image too big in size
Supported showing multi-line model header in report in single line
Supported diagram frame in export image
Supported extra option for controlling the generation of Use Case Details in report
Supported Greek in PDF report
Supported not to show carriage return character in frame title by adjusting global option
Supported changing From/To shape with different shape type
Supported turning off generating documentation popup in published documents
Supported copying diagram as BMP
Supported referencing Component or Interface as Interaction Lifeline's base classifier
Supported clicking diagram overview to jump to associated diagram in published Web content
Improved automatic element sorting in report
Improved Directory and File Chooser's performance
Allowed selecting default font for PDF report's header/footer
Made 'Export diagram with frame' available for all kinds of diagram
Increased Sweeper's sensitivity and speed
Disallowed duplicating Found/Lost Message in Sequence Diagram
Fixed drag and drop Class from tree to diagram not presenting Containment relationship
Fixed Activity Edge connector not contain-able by Activity shape
Fixed shape created by using generic resource not following formatting
Fixed BPMN Task owned by both BPMN Pool and BPMN Group at the same time
Fixed workspace-wide association options (e.g. Show Direction) not applied to newly created diagram
Fixed paste content in Note show nothing
Fixed create report with user-defined template in Report Writer cause header styles missing
Fixed unable to export/import transition of model
Fixed Diagram preview unable to show whole diagram
Fixed sweep shapes in DFD cause bad connector end point
Fixed drag State from tree to diagram missing Region
Fixed move Entity cause other Entities' columns in the same diagram to vibrate
Fixed Activity unable to contain Structured Activity Node
Fixed export diagram show extra frame after print preview
Fixed show related shapes not show note
Fixed bad font appearance when running in Simplified Chinese
Fixed Component cannot hold Class models inside it
Fixed Moving Combined Fragment cannot moved the Loop Interaction Use in it
Fixed a problem which might cause application to freeze on splash screen
Fixed paste Russian content to VP produce content in question marks
Fixed Communication Diagram Actor and lifeline move too close cause Message disappear
Fixed undo create message from combined fragment cause incorrect operand bound
Fixed import XMI missing anchor
Fixed unable to delete Collaboration Use in Composite Structure Diagram
Fixed unable to create model in Subsystem if Subsystem is selected
Fixed documentation in PDF report missing line break if the documentation was entered in plain text mode
Fixed create shapes by branch resource sometimes cause shapes created outside the container
Fixed incorrect Transit from/to value show in generated reports
Fixed import UML2 ignored association's navigability
Fixed the second lifeline being created in a Frame not being contained by the Frame
Fixed paste text into table cell in documentation breaks the table

Agilian 1.3 Release Notes

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