Re: Help needed to update an OFBiz Wiki Graffle Diagram

Posted by Ron Wheeler on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Help-needed-to-update-an-OFBiz-Wiki-Graffle-Diagram-tp4659615p4659637.html

Others may have more definite information about what has been used in
the past.

I have seen UML(use case) drawings in the wiki that use the same (or
very similar) graphics that ArgoUML uses.
ArgoUML is open source
We are only scratching the surface in our internal use of it so I am not
an expert modeller but it looks like something that an experienced UML
modeler should be able to use to get most of the diagrams required to
support development.

It would be nice to have a product that deals with the issue of version
control and SCM for models in a way that allowed many people to update
the models.
It is probably possible to partition the model into enough chunks that
people can keep the models up to date without tripping over each other.

There are a lot of database models already part of the documentation but
I am not sure if they are up to date.
I also do not know what tool was used to make them
We use MySQL Workbench which is free and produces diagrams that are
pretty aesthetically pleasing.



Ron




On 15/12/2014 1:56 PM, Todd Thorner wrote:

> I'm sold ... for what that's worth.  Is there any UML-type facility for
> the project's future of design & spec-chasing?
>
>
>
> On 14-12-15 10:41 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
>> On 15/12/2014 1:30 PM, Todd Thorner wrote:
>>> Yeah, graphs & charts represent special cases.
>> For the first applications of our ETVL, org charts were a very useful
>> output since we were dealing with people in organizations where a clean
>> hierarchy is the common way that companies are organized. It was useful
>> to have the organizational structure (departments, divisions, etc) as
>> well as reporting relationships between people.
>>
>> Graphviz is capable of producing very complex charts and has a fair
>> amount of language features to support customizing the appearance.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14-12-15 09:49 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
>>>> If people don't like the idea of using the Graphviz version that I made,
>>>> there is a viewer for graffle that runs on the PC. Not sure if any of
>>>> their other free utilities will output an SVG.
>>>> Graphviz can outout SVG.
>>>> I am not sure if it would be easy to use svg as a source.
>>>>
>>>> Graphviz offers high level control over placement that usually gives a
>>>> clean graph without having to manually place nodes.
>>>>
>>>> I have just started to use the dynamic javascript version of graphviz in
>>>> my ETVL tool to output org charts embedded into HTML pages from
>>>> hierarchical data.
>>>> Works fine but the org charts are not as nice looking as GetOrgChart's
>>>> charts and GetOrgChart produces a chart that can be interrogated in the
>>>> browser to view the detail information stored at each node so I support
>>>> both ways of generating charts in HTML format.
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>>
>>>> On 15/12/2014 12:04 PM, Todd Thorner wrote:
>>>>> What happens if you change a .graffle file's extension to something
>>>>> else
>>>>> like SVG or XML?  Any luck?  I know very little about Mac lock-ins, but
>>>>> if you can get a text-based file to display (e.g. if .graffle is .xml
>>>>> underneath) you might be able to edit the text.
>>>>>
>>>>> You could also try taking a screenshot and then editing that by
>>>>> overlaying the newer links on top of the old image.  Quality might
>>>>> suffer.
>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps committers could consider SVG as a forward-thinking standard
>>>>> format for the project's graphical source files (production-ready files
>>>>> can be exported as whatever).  My preferred tool is Inkscape
>>>>> (Windows/Mac/Linux).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 14-12-15 06:33 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
>>>>>> Can we move them to open source products such as  Open Office or
>>>>>> ArgoUML
>>>>>> or Freeplane?
>>>>>> These run on all platforms and are all free.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ron
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 15/12/2014 7:30 AM, Sharan-F wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi All
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone in the community have access to Graffle on a Mac who is
>>>>>>> willing
>>>>>>> to help us update one of our wiki diagrams?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The diagram that needs to be updated is called
>>>>>>> OFBizComponentDependencies.graffle (see link below)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpageattachments.action?pageId=7766065&metadataLink=true
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpageattachments.action?pageId=7766065&metadataLink=true>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It forms part of the page around Component Set and Component Set
>>>>>>> Dependencies page that we want keep up to date.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/Component+and+Component+Set+Dependencies
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We need to update some links so please respond if you can help.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>> Sharan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> View this message in context:
>>>>>>> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Help-needed-to-update-an-OFBiz-Wiki-Graffle-Diagram-tp4659615.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>>>>>>
>>

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