Project Publisher

Have you been looking for a project viewer to read Visual Paradigm’s projects without having the Visual Paradigm Suite installed? Here it is. Project Publisher is a powerful report generation tool, allowing user to publish Visual Paradigm projects to technical and professional Web documents. The published Web content can be accessed in any Web browser anytime and anywhere, without having the need to install the Visual Paradigm Suite or any plug-in.

1. Use either of the following methods to launch Project Publisher.
   • Select Tools | Project Publisher... from main menu.
     
     
     
   • Click on the Project Publisher button on the toolbar
     
     
     
2. From the Project Publisher, specify in the Output directory field the folder to publish the Web content to. This can be done by pressing the ... button and choosing the folder from the file chooser, or simply enter the path directly to the field.
   
   The Launch viewer option is provided for showing the published Web content when the publish procedure has done. Check the check box if you want to enable this option, otherwise unchecks it.
   
   
   
3. Press OK to start publishing.
4. Wait until the process has finished, then you can locate the published Web content from the specified output directory.
   
   
   

Open the index.html file to view the published Web content.

Empowers users to publish their projects as professional, attractive and interactive Web content.

Perhaps you have found that it was always a complex task when presenting your project and idea to someone, such as business partners or your client, who do not work with Visual Paradigm’s product. Project Publisher is a light-weight solution that provides you the ability to publish your project as read-only Web content, and to view it in any machine that have a web browser installed, without having other applications or plug-in to be installed.

The published document is divided into three sections. They are Diagram Navigator, Model Navigator and Class Navigator.

Diagram Navigator is the main and default view, provided for quick and easy access to all diagrams in the source project. With Diagram Navigator, you can select a diagram type from the navigation pane, and view a diagram’s content by selecting from menu pane a diagram that belongs to that diagram type.


Model Navigator is the second view, acting as the central model repository of the whole project. Model Navigator group models as packages, which allows you to select to access all models or models inside a particular package.


Class Navigator is similar to Model Navigator, but to display only class and package models in menu.

Besides showing an image of a diagram, the image also allows you to go into the detail of any models on the diagram by simply clicking on them.

Click on the link below to have a look at the sample page:
http://files2.visual-paradigm.com/resources/vpsuite2.2/project_publisher/courier/index.html

Click on the link below to download the sample project of Courier which consists of the .vpp project file and the published Web content:
courier.zip

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