System Requirements
- Microsoft Office Visio 2000/2002/2003 or 2007 (Standard, Professional or Enterprise).
- The following settings need to be made (they are normally set anyway) in menu Tools - Options:
- VBA enabled in Visio.
- Visio automation events enabled.
- Visio 2007 - menu Tools -> Trust Center -> enable the check mark: 'Trust access to the VBA project object model'
Sandrila SDL should work with all language versions of Visio. We only use the
International English version for development. Please inform us
of any problems with non-English language versions of Visio at
email support.
Sandrila SDL diagram types
| | | These diagram types are fully implemented
in the registered versions only |
| Package (virtual, redefined and finalized) | Procedure (virtual, redefined and finalized), exported procedure |
| System, System type (virtual, redefined and finalized) and abstract | Process, Process type (virtual, redefined and finalized) and abstract |
| Block, Block type (virtual, redefined and finalized) and abstract | Service, Service Type (legacy SDL-92) |
| Substructure (legacy SDL-92) | Operator |
| HMSC | Method |
| Macro definition | MSC (virtual, redefined and finalized) |
| MSC document | State, State type (virtual, redefined and finalized) |
| Hierarchy (not officially part of SDL/MSC) | State aggregation, State aggregation type |
| UML2 Use Case | UML2 Activity diagram |
| UML2 Object Model (virtual, redefined and finalized) | UML2 Sequence diagram |
| UML2 Class diagram | UML2 State Model (virtual, redefined and finalized) |
| UML2 Composite Structure | |
| UML2 Component diagram | |
| UML2 Communication diagram | |
| UML2 Collaboration diagram | |
| User Requirements Notation diagram | |
Feature Matrix
| Feature |
Unregistered |
Basic |
Pro |
| All SDL-2000 diagram types and symbols |
Limited |
Y |
Y |
| All MSC-2000 diagram types and symbols |
Limited |
Y |
Y |
| Legacy SDL-88 and SDL-92 diagram types |
Limited |
Y |
Y |
| Many UML2 diagram types and symbols |
Limited |
Y |
Y |
| URN diagram type and symbols |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| Optional colour fill |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| Extendability |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| Global documents text and shape search |
- |
Y |
Y |
| Diagram syntax check |
Limited |
Limited |
Y |
| Diagram link checking |
- |
Y |
Y |
| Process diagram state analysis |
- |
- |
Y |
| Process diagram state/signal cross reference |
- |
- |
Y |
| Export all pages as images |
- |
- |
Y |
| SDL-CIF (Z.106) import from other SDL tools |
Limited |
Limited |
Y |
| MSC-CIF import from other SDL tools |
- |
Limited |
Y |
| Mscgen import |
- |
Limited |
Y |
SDL-PR and CIF (Z.106) export to other SDL tools
(Package, System and Block diagrams) |
- |
- |
Y |
| SDL 2006 updates - Timer Start/stop |
- |
- |
Y |
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Recent update history:
September 2008
- Improved names of subshapes in Class and Object shapes
- Redesigned options dialogs
- Fixed possible problems with Visio 2007
August 2008
- Improved diagram analysis
- System, Block and Package diagram analysis now available in unregistered and Basic versions
- Added menu entry to clear any analysis errors
July 2008
- Improved Instance shape and connection points
- Improved diagram analysis error messages and fault handling
June 2008
- Fixed problem with exceptions with non-English language settings
- Improved folder selection/creation in dialogs
- Fixed problem in text search
May 2008
- Fixed problem with template frame resizing
- Fixed problem with MSC diagram insert space
- Improved creation of connection points on instances and frame
April 2008
- Added extra page header for MSC and Sequence diagrams
- Added insert/delete space for MSC and Sequence diagrams
March 2008
- Added diagonal text option to MSC message
- Corrected ability to add text to Choice shapes in UML Activity and State diagrams
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