http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Help-needed-to-update-an-OFBiz-Wiki-Graffle-Diagram-tp4659615p4659671.html
> I thought that I had seen some UML Use Case fragments but I can not find them again.
>
> Ron
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> On 15/12/2014 11:38 PM, 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
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
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