Tips & Tricks - General Topics

Downloading Help Files
2006-02-13
Visual Paradigm Suite is a collection of Visual Paradigm’s CASE Tools including Visual Paradigm for UML (VP-UML), Smart Development Environment (SDE), DB Visual ARCHITECT (DB-VA) and DB Visual ARCHITECT SQL (DB-VA SQL). You can install any of these tools by using the VP-Suite installer. The Online Help will be available within the working environment of the tool which is activated.


Changing Edition Using the Product Edition Manager
2005-11-28
The need of changing edition is particularly necessary when you want to test the functionalities supported by different editions of the installed product(s). The Product Edition Manager for Visual Paradigm Suite (VP Sutie) offers a choice of which edition of the installed Visual Paradigm product(s) to activate.




Importing Settings from Existing Workspace
2005-11-28
A workspace is a repository of the UML projects, it also stores the settings, user interface perspectives and other preferences defined for the working environment. If it is the first launch of the tool, you will be prompted by the Workspace Launcher dialog box, you may import the settings from the existing workspace if there is any.


Printing Diagrams on Linux
2005-11-28
This article shows you how to setup a remote printer for printing the diagrams on a Fedora Core 4.







Testing VP Suite 2.1 Early Access without Affecting the Existing Installation
2005-11-28
The release of the VP Suite 2.1 provides the CASE Tools, including Visual Paradigm for UML (VP-UML), Smart Development Environment (SDE) and DB Visual ARCHITECT (DB-VA) and DB-VA SQL. You can test the early access of the VP Suite 2.1 without affecting the existing installation.


Using Find Facilities
2005-11-28
With VP’s products, you do not need to spend so much time to browse through the whole project to look for a specific element. You can simply use the Find facilities provided to find the element without any trouble.


Keeping Your Tool Up-to-Date
2005-11-28
As Visual Paradigm aims at providing quality products to users, the usability of the CASE Tools are improved and released from time-to-time. In order to keep the installed products up-to-date, you can update your products with the Internet update or local update.


Keeping Your Tool Up-to-Date By VP Suite Update
2005-11-28
VP Suite provides you a collection of Visual Paradigm’s CASE Tools for installation. As Visual Paradigm aims at providing quality products to users, the usability of the CASE Tools are improved from time-to-time, VP Suite Update provides you an effortless way to keep the installed products up-to-date.


Keeping Your Tool Up-to-Date By Update Synchronizer
2005-11-28
Update Synchronizer is a tool that assists you to update all of the installed Visual Paradigm products in your organization with the most up-to-date copy from the local network instead of the Internet.


Replacing Hot fix
2005-11-28
If you have reported a bug for one of the Visual Paradigm’s products, our engineers will investigate the problem and fix the bug. Once the bug is fixed, our support team will send you the hot fix for testing on the reported bug.