Improved Entity Relationship Diagram and Overall User Experience - Version 11.80

Entity Relationship Diagram supports different styles of attribute layout, keys and min-max notation for relationships

New Features and Improvements

• Added Entity Relationship Diagram settings
• Keys - Plus & Hash (+#)/PK FK/Icons
• Cardinality - Crow's Foot/Min-Max
• Attribute parts - Flow/Columns
• Active tool switches to selection after inserting element from toolbox using drag&drop
• Improved displaying glossary term in tooltip - long lines in description are split to multiple lines
• Improved layout of Layer element in Computer Network Diagram - name is centered to bottom line of shape
• Added dialog for setting rotation when clicking on Rotate button in ribbon
• Added more predefined transitions to flowchart
• Added grid type setting to Grid button in ribbon
• Added default shortcut key for Reverse Relationship - ALT + E
• Displaying shortcut keys in context menus of diagram editor
• Improved freehand path tool
• Improved rectangular relationship ends
• Improved rendering of relationship caps when line dash style is applied
• Enlarged width of font name list in ribbon
• Added key navigation (Home, End, Down, Up, PageDown, PageUp) to ribbon combo boxes
• Added key search to ribbon combo boxes
• Improved prioritization of search results in quick action box
• Added possibility to click through empty parts of UI Menu element and select elements under it
• Preserving indent in the code editor in the Parser sidebar
• Added predefined transitions to Chen Entity Relationship Diagram
• Improved 'Create Association Entity' action to follow default line style of relationships
• Use case can be renamed in tab bar (when it is open in a use case definition tab)
• Use case can be deleted from the tab context menu (when it is open in a use case definition tab)
• Added new template language commands:
• ERD Chen Entity: EntityType, Attributes, HasKey, Keys, Relationships, PrimaryKeyName
• ERD Chen Relationship Info: RelationshipType, Relationship, From, To, FromEntity, ToEntity, FromMultiplicity, ToMultiplicity
• ERD Chen Attribute: AttributeType
• ERD Chen Participation: ParticipationType, Multiplicity
• Added support for SQL DDL script generation for Chen Entity Relationship Diagram
• Improved rendering quality for icons in list boxes (e.g. list box with types in Filter Definition window)
• Added diagram type name to each element type in the list box in Filter Definition window
• Improved navigation between operation and attributes using Down/Up keys in diagram editor
• Tables can be inserted from database sidebar to a diagram by double-click
• Tables can be dragged from database sidebar to the canvas of the diagram editor
• Elements inserted to the diagram editor by drag&drop are selected after inserting
• New element dropped over free relationship end connects to this relationship
• Improved connecting relationship to element on position where other relationships are connected
• Getters and setters can be generated for several selected attributes
• Pressing the Down key while editing the name of Enumeration navigates to first enumeration item or creates one
• When setting line style to other than rectangular or rounded rectangular, auto path is turned off
• BPMN commands can be applied to multiple selected elements at once
• Added allowed transitions for Actor Lifeline to universal connector
• Added support for drag&drop change of attached fields to ERD Relationship and UML Association

Fixed Bugs

• Fixed displaying description to glossary terms surrounded by punctuations or symbols
• Fixed container area of Layer element (Computer Network Diagram), Component element (UML Component Diagram), Class (UML Composite Diagram), Node (UML Deployment diagram)
• Fixed rendering of some elements in sketchy style
• Fixed icon for flowchart merge tool
• Fixed some icons in project tree and added missing icons for some elements
• Fixed scrolling tree view to top after resizing
• Fixed layout refreshing after including label to element main borders
• Fixed layout refreshing after setting label position to one of predefined positions (left/right/top/bottom)
• Fixed default field for the Diagram Description element to description
• Fixed handling shortcut keys (F3,F4,F9, ...) from search textbox in the toolbox
• Fixed using toolbox shortcut keys after clicking the toolbox
• Fixed application crash when pasting some kinds of elements copied from a container
• Fixed calculating stereotype layout for UML Component
• Fixed application crash when trying to set font with an incorrect name from ribbon
• Fixed scattering of elements (previously nested in the container) after changing the layout of the container
• Fixed inserting a new element over a relationship end
• Fixed selecting elements from disabled layer using select all/invert selection/select all of same type/tab
• Fixed application crash when editing sequence action and try to set multiple values to a single parameter
• Fixed parsing of expression for Message (UML Communication Diagram)
• Fixed showing field descriptions for ERD Entity
• Fixed application crash when try to login to Software Ideas Server without its configuration
• Fixed missing Select Whole Graph menu item in classic menu Edit/Select/Select Whole Graph
• Fixed definition editing after inserting and on F2 key pressed for UI Breadcrumbs, UI Button Group and UI Tabs
• Fixed some texts in user interface
• Fixed recalculation of font size for field editor in diagram editor after zooming
• Fixed setting interrupting to BPMN Event after checking Throw check box
• Fixed recalculation of label position of UML Sequence Message while moving it
• Fixed rendering one-line UI Paragraph with Lorem Ipsum text
• Fixed applying padding to UML Frame element
• Fixed applying shadow to UML Frame element
• Fixed rendering nested elements of nested elements in expansion table element
• Fixed copying freehand stroke
• Fixed unexpected Properties dialog closing when floating window was open (e.g. Element References)

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