VP Suite 3.2 has been released with many significant changes. New features includes the support of Mind Map diagram, a powerful tool to help organizing idea and thoughts. The support of adding callout and freehand shape form a robust annotation support. Nicknamer allows defining another language set for model. Model Transitor is ready for defining transition between model elements. For enhancements, the Business Process Modeling functionalities has been improved. User can model business activities more rapidly without caring the resize of pool and the arrangement of flow objects. Requirement Modeling has been improved as well. User can create new requirement types and display Requirements in tabular view. Report Writer has been advanced to a newer engine, which make it much stable than ever before. More about the changes can be read from the rest of this page.

Download - VP Suite 3.2 is available to download at http://www.visual-paradigm.com/download/

Annotation is an extra information, such as comments, notes, explanation, or other type of external mark that describe a model. Sometimes, annotation is an effective way to edit and review work in a work group environment. For instance, you may annotate a model for asking your group mate to confirm your changes.

Learn more about Annotating Models With Callout Shapes

When modeling projects, we sometimes use Callout Shape to perform Annotation for reminding our team members. Besides usage of words, Freehand Shape can help annotating models. We can draw shapes and paths to visually divide the diagrams into different sectors, or to organize the shapes in the diagrams, etc.

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Nowadays, information flows throughout the world. When working with VP-UML, we may have many modelers and clients from different countries, one language can never cater to all people. It is impossible to create many projects with different languages for all models and clients. However, this problem can be easily solved by assigning Nickname to a model.

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Visual Paradigm Teamwork Server (VP Teamwork Server) can run as standalone server or run within a Java Application Server. For teams who are running an active Java Application Server, they can deploy VP Teamwork Server to the server and run it without maintaining one more server. Additionally, the easy-to-use Web user interface make it easier for performing administrative tasks.

Learn more about Running VP Teamwork Server in Common Java Web Server

Perforce is a Software Configuration Management system which let developers manage the changes they made when developing software. All Visual Paradigm client products are integrated with Perforce to facilitate collaborative modeling. Your team can use Perforce repository to store project files, keep track of changes and perform modeling concurrently.

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Perforce is a Software Configuration Management system which let developers manage the changes they made when developing software. VP products can talk to Perforce directly to provide revision control and collaboration functionality. You can import projects, commit and update you modeling project to the Perforce repository. If them is more than one team member modifying the same set of model at the same time, you can also resolve conflicts with the assistance of the comprehensive conflict resolution UI.

Learn more about Branch and Tag Support in Perforce

Mind Mapping Diagram is a simple, yet powerful diagram to help organize concepts and ideas through a visual note-taking approach. By presenting ideas in a networked form, user can develop precise ideas much easier.

There is no restriction on the usage of Mind Map Diagram. It can be used for making business decisions, preparing meeting agenda, story planning or any aspects of our lives that require effective thinking.

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In order to avoid complex design, you may want to break down a model and present it in different diagrams base on different contexts. Model sharing is designed to serve this purpose. You may create multiple views in different diagrams from a model. The properties of the views will clearly preserved as they belong to the same model.

Learn more about Open a View from Model

Model Transitor is designed to create and manage transitions among model elements. One may add transitions between model elements, and trace the origin and end. This gives a rapid way of navigating between model elements.

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While the traditional approaches provide more comprehensive way for moving , copying and reordering through accessing dialog boxes and pressing special keys. All these can now be done by simply drag-and-drop - press on a member (or members), drag them to somewhere else to achieve moving, copying and reordering.

Learn more about Move/Copy/Reorder Class or Entity Members by Drag and Drop

In this release, many major and minor enhancements are made to the business process modeling related features. The most remarkable ones are automatic Pool stretching and smart connector routing. Automatic Pool stretching reduces time and effort in resizing Pools and Lanes, while smart connector routing reduces time and effort for re-routing connectors. With those enhancements, time spend on modeling can be reduced drastically.

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In this release, several enhancements have been introduced to the Report Writer to increase the stability and make it more customizable. One of the remarkable change is the advancement of Report Engine, which improve the stability and performance. Besides, standalone products such as VP-UML, Agilian and DB-VA now supports switching between the main application and the Report Writer, making it able to perform modeling and report editing simultaneously.

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In this version, users can define their own Requirement types by giving a type name and defining a set of type-specific attributes. Besides, it is also possible to present Requirements in Tabular form, which provides user with a different perspective of viewing the Requirements. User can concentrate more on the differences between Requirements by comparing their attributes’ values in table easily.

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To make the Web a versatile and interactive medium for browsing VP project, there are several enhancement made to Project Publisher in this version.
In the published web contents, it is easier to open diagrams, sub-diagrams, shapes, files and folders via a shape in an image. The documentation of model element will appear as tooltip when the mouse cursor hovering on the model shape.

Learn more about Project Publisher Enhancements