What Topics Can I Discuss on the Visual Paradigm Forum?

The Visual Paradigm forum at forums.visual-paradigm.com is an open discussion board for anything related to Visual Paradigm's modeling, code engineering, and product usage. Based on the visible topic list, discussions fall into four broad areas: UML and other modeling notations, code engineering and database work, product usage and troubleshooting, and feature suggestions or version updates. You can post questions, report bugs, or propose features in any of these areas.

Modeling and diagramming

This is the most active category. Topics cover both specific diagram types and general modeling questions.

• UML class diagrams — for example, how to link an attribute of a class within a class diagram.
• Sequence diagrams — including formatting issues and notation questions.
• Activity diagrams — such as initial and final nodes appearing white or invisible, and interruptible activity regions.
• ERD and database modeling — including synchronizing roles to a class diagram.
• BPMN — for example, default tagged values not being applied to tasks imported from BPMN 2.0.
• SysML — including whether SysML v2 support is planned.
• Textual analysis and glossary — questions about the workflow between textual analysis and glossary, and how Synonym/Ignore behaves.

If you are unsure which notation fits your problem, posting in the UML modeling or General Questions/Discussions section is a reasonable default.

Code engineering and database topics

The forum also hosts threads on generating code and database artifacts from models.

• DDL generation — for example, generating DDL for BigQuery.
• ORM and framework support — such as questions about Hibernate and Spring Datasource versions.
• API import — for example, importing a Swagger YAML file into Visual Paradigm.
• Synchronization — changing from a role when synchronizing to a class diagram.

These threads tend to be practical: you describe the model or file you are working with, the tool version, and what output you expected versus what you got.

Product usage, installation, and troubleshooting

A large share of activity is about getting the software to run and behave as expected.

• Installation and launch — for example, being unable to launch Visual Paradigm Community Edition (Version 16.1, Build 20200601).
• Login issues — such as logging in with Google not working.
• Memory configuration — for example, how to use more than 2 GB of max memory.
• Display problems — Cyrillic characters showing as ?????? in the Postmania web interface (Visual Paradigm Server 18.0).
• Editor behavior — selecting an element and opening the specification editor in VP Online.
• AI features — questions about the AI model privacy policy.

When reporting a bug, include the exact version and build number, your operating system, and the steps that reproduce the problem. The visible bug reports follow this pattern, which makes them easier for others to confirm or answer.

Feature suggestions and version updates

The forum has dedicated sections for forward-looking discussion.

• Feature Suggestions — for example, editable diagrams in MS Office form, an additional default black-and-white UML format, and SysML v2 support.
• ChangeLog — release notes threads such as Visual Paradigm 18.1 ChangeLogs and Visual Paradigm 18.0 ChangeLogs, where you can see what changed in each release.
• General Questions/Discussions — broader topics like DMN support, a possible new free version, and licensing questions (for example, a Starter license watermark thread).

How to choose where to post

Before posting, it is worth searching the forum for your version number or feature name, since threads such as the memory question and the Swagger import question have accumulated many replies and may already contain your answer.