Keeping Your Tool Up-to-Date By VP Suite Update

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.

In order to improve the usability of the CASE tools, the product files are updated and released from time-to-time allowing users to update their installed products. VP Suite provides users the VP Suite Update which is capable of comparing the existing files in your local installation directory with the most up-to-date files from the Internet server, downloading the updated files to replace your existing one.

With VP Suite Update, you can keep your installed product up-to-date without re-installing the whole product. You can benefit from saving time to get the up-to-date product without wasting bandwidth for accessing the Internet.

To activate the update process, simply launch the VP Suite Update to proceed. The VP Suite Update wizard will guide you through the update process.

On the Windows platform, you can launch the VP Suite Update in one of the two ways:

• On the Windows Start Menu, select Programs > Visual Paradigm > VP Suite Update 2.1, click VP Suite Update 2.1 shortcut to start the VP Suite Update.
  
  
  
• Double-click the VP Suite Update file at the %VP_Suite_Installation_Directory%/bin directory.
  
  
  

On the Linux platform, launch the VP Suite Update by executing the VP Suite Update file at
%VP_Suite_Installation_Directory%/bin directory.

On the Mac OS X platform, launch the VP Suite Update by executing the VP Suite Update file at
%VP_Suite_Installation_Directory%/bin directory.

VP Suite Update provides you two connection methods – Automatic Connection and Manual Connection for the update process.

• Automatic Connection – Select a server from the drop-down menu for checking and downloading update files. The list of servers can be refreshed by using the Refresh Server List button.
  
  
  Note: If there is a connection problem when downloading the update files from the specified server under Automatic Connection, VP Suite Update will connect to another server randomly instead of the specified connection to continue the update automatically.
  
  
• Manual Connection – Specify the URL or file path for checking update files.
  
  
  Note: If there are multiple installations of VP’s CASE Tools in your organization, you can specify a shared location for setting up an update repository by the Update Synchronizer to assist the multiple updates using the local network.
  
  By using the Update Synchronizer to keep the files in the update repository up-to-date, network client can specify the URL or file path of the update repository using the Manual Connection.
  
  For more information on the Update Synchronizer, please refer Keeping Your Tool Up-to-Date By Update Synchronizer.

In case proxy is used for connecting the Internet in the network, you may need to enable the proxy configuration. Click the Proxy Setting button, the Proxy Setting dialog box is shown. Specify the proxy information to access the Internet by checking the Enable Proxy option.


Having configured the connection method, press Next to proceed.

After configured the connection method, the VP Suite Update first checks if there is an update version of the VP Suite Update. If the current VP Suite Update is outdated, a VP Suite Update dialog box is shown prompting “Your VP Suite update program is out-of-date.” message.


If the OK button is clicked, the current VP Suite Update patches itself and restarts the update process.


If the Cancel button is clicked, the update process is no longer proceeded by the out-of-date VP Suite Update.

After configured the connection method, VP Suite Update compares the files of the installed products with the up-to-date files in the specified server.

After checking is completed, the updated files are listed. You are allowed to select the listed files to be updated by checking the box corresponding to the file on the Update column. By default, all files will be selected for update.


During the checking for update files, VP Suite Update identifies two types of files including modified and obsolete to be updated. The descriptions of modified and obsolete files can be found by clicking on the statement (?) hyperlink.

• The modified files colored in blue in the table refer to the files which are modified by the users and will be replaced with the original files
• The obsolete files colored in red are those no longer useful in the new version of the product and will be deleted.

If you want to keep the modified and obsolete files, press the Deselect “Obsolete” and Deselect “Modified” buttons so that these files will not be updated.

After selected the files to be updated, the update process will proceed automatically. The progress of the update process is shown.


After update is completed, click Finish to exit the VP Update wizard.

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