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-tp4659615p4659666.html

Looks very nice. The blue shading is a bit too much when the images are
posted on the wiki - I did find one in my searching and it was hard to
read the entity name since the black did not have enough contrast with
the blue.

http://ufo.labs.libre-entreprise.org/UFO/screenshots.html does not show
all of the UML drawings that one would like to have.
Use case, Sequence, Activity are not shown.

It looks really good as an ER tool.
Does anyone know which one was used to make the ER diagrams in the Wiki?

Ron

On 16/12/2014 3:24 AM, pierre.gaudin wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> There is a tool : UFO (UML for OFBIz) that have been developed to make
> UML diagrams from OFBiz XML entity definition :
> http://ufo.labs.libre-entreprise.org/UFO/index.html
> http://www.neogia.org/wiki/index.php/U.F.O.
>
> We use it for a long time and it works well. It's on GPL licence but
> may be it can be set to Apache licence.
>
> Pierre
> On 16/12/2014 05:38, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>> The graphs at
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBTECH/Data+Model+Diagrams 
>> were done using OmniGraffle, that's all what I know. Are you
>> referring to other places (IIRW other places are older...)
>>
>> Jacques
>>
>> Le 15/12/2014 20:37, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
>>> 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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