HOW TO GENERATE DIAGRAMS

This tutorial covers the following topics:

1. Generate a diagram
2. Edit a diagram
3. Share or export a Diagram

GENERATE A DIAGRAM

Data Model

Requirements:

• If your Visual Expert project is reading code from a database, you should include the tables in your analysis.
• If your Visual Expert project is reading code from files & folders, you must include create table statements and foreign key definitions.

Procedure:

• In the treeview, double-click on the table icon to list the tables in your project
• Select a table - if needed enter its name in the quick search field to find it.
• Go to [Diagrams] in the ribbon menu, and click on "Data Model"

• You can collapse each table for a more compact diagram
  
  
  
• Select a table, a column, an object, a function or a variable in your project.
• Go to [Diagrams] in the ribbon menu, and click on "Impact Analysis"
  

PBL dependencies

• In the treeview, double-click on the PBL icon to list the PBLs in your project
• Select a PBL - if needed enter its name in the quick search field to find it.
• Go to [Diagrams] in the ribbon menu, and click on "PBL Dependencies"  
  
  
  
  
• If your Diagrams includes lots of PBLs and relationships, you can select a particular PBL > the connected PBLs will be highlighted in blue:
  

Edit a diagram

Once generated by Visual Expert, you can edit your diagram:

1. Click on the "edit" button
   
   
    
2. The diagram opens in a dedicated editor
   
   
    
3. Adjust the diagram as needed.
4. If your diagrams includes lots of items, adjust the display with [View - Panes - Pan & Zoom]:
   
   
    
5. Once you're done, close the editor > the diagram is updated in Visual Expert

Share or export a Diagram

Depending on your needs, you have several options to share or export diagrams:

1. Share the diagram with other Visual Expert users

This option allows anyone connected to your VE project to download a copy of the diagram in his Visual Expert client, to leverage the features of the VE UI: diagram synchronized with source code, code exploration, etc.

• Select the parent item of the diagram ("Department" in this example)
• Right-click - Select "Create view from selection"
  
   
• This will isolate the diagram in a separate view (tabpage)
• Right-click on the tab name - Select "Share this View":
  
  
   
• All VE users connected to your project can open this view from [View - Load a shared View]
  
  
   

2. Export the diagram as an image

After generating the diagram, simply click on the "export" button to generate a PNG file:


 

3. Export the diagram as an editable file

From the Diagram Editor:

1. Go to [File - Save As…]
   
    
2. Choose a name and location
3. The diagram is saved as a "*.velogdiagram" file
4. Other Visual Expert users can simply double-click on the diagram to edit it.