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Does Jama support plantUML plugin ?

Hi Sudha,

I am not with Jama so I don't know the answer to your question directly. Here are some comments, though.

From Wiki: "PlantUML is an open-source tool allowing users to create UML diagrams from a plain text language. The language of PlantUML is an example of a Application Specific Language.[3] It uses Graphviz software to layout its diagrams."

I assume your question has to do with being able to create a relationship diagram using Graphviz. It seems the current version of Jama does not support a direct export to PlantUML/Graphviz. At my company, someone happened to wrote an Excel VBA macro that takes the Jama export of a single record and finds all the downstream items and use Graphviz to generate a diagram in .PDF format. So I know theoretically a "plugin" is possible via Excel/VBA macro.

As you might know already, there are other ways to expose relationships within the Web UI, such as Coverage Explorer, Impact Analysis, and configure Explorer to shows relationships in tree. 

Good luck.

swoo

You can patch the ckeditor in jama to support this. We hsve testet that. Works also with the latest Version, but do not use it in Produktion.

Hi Harald.

I tried this but after modifying
/apps/contour/js/ckconfig/jamaConfig.js
to include
config.plugins += ',plantuml';
and to add 'Plantuml' to the config.toolbar_Jama variable, i have the following problems:

1. The text input box for the PlantUML source text is only 2 lines in height.
2. The PlantUML source is discarded (which is stored as "alt" tag of the image) as soon as the item is closed / saved and re-opened.

Did you have the same issues? Were you able to resolve these?

Kind regards

Hauke

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Hauke Wintjen
Rimpl Consulting
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-29-2015 17:33
From: Harald Hotz-Behofsits
Subject: Re: PlantUML support

You can patch the ckeditor in jama to support this. We hsve testet that. Works also with the latest Version, but do not use it in Produktion.

Hi Hauke,

As you recognized it is not perfect. You can change the size by editing the plugin, but there are other issues you will find during use.

We have installed a local plantuml server in our company avoiding the exchange of UML information with a public service. The content of the UML is encoded in the URL and can be edited by pasting into the appropriate fields of Plantuml web GUI.

I would recommand that approach.

You can test the approach by using the PlantUML Web Server

PlantUML.com		remove preview
PlantUML Web Server Create simply and freely UML diagrams from your browser thanks to PlantUML Web Server. Just enter a text diagram, and get the result in PNG or SVG format. View this on PlantUML.com >

then you get an ulr to be used as image reference you can enter in source edit mode.

Harald

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Harald Hotz-Behofsits
Frequentis AG
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-10-2017 05:47
From: Hauke Wintjen
Subject: Re: PlantUML support

Hi Harald.

I tried this but after modifying
/apps/contour/js/ckconfig/jamaConfig.js
to include
config.plugins += ',plantuml';
and to add 'Plantuml' to the config.toolbar_Jama variable, i have the following problems:

1. The text input box for the PlantUML source text is only 2 lines in height.
2. The PlantUML source is discarded (which is stored as "alt" tag of the image) as soon as the item is closed / saved and re-opened.

Did you have the same issues? Were you able to resolve these?

Kind regards

Hauke

------------------------------
Hauke Wintjen
Rimpl Consulting
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 06-29-2015 17:33
From: Harald Hotz-Behofsits
Subject: Re: PlantUML support

You can patch the ckeditor in jama to support this. We hsve testet that. Works also with the latest Version, but do not use it in Produktion.

Hi Harald.

Thanks for your quick response. Your approach seems to work also but comes with switching to "view HTML source" and then copying / pasting the html link in. Or did you find a better approach?

Kind regards
Hauke

------------------------------
Hauke Wintjen
Rimpl Consulting
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 07-10-2017 07:48
From: Harald Hotz-Behofsits
Subject: Re: PlantUML support

Hi Hauke,

As you recognized it is not perfect. You can change the size by editing the plugin, but there are other issues you will find during use.

We have installed a local plantuml server in our company avoiding the exchange of UML information with a public service. The content of the UML is encoded in the URL and can be edited by pasting into the appropriate fields of Plantuml web GUI.

I would recommand that approach.

You can test the approach by using the PlantUML Web Server

PlantUML.com		remove preview
PlantUML Web Server Create simply and freely UML diagrams from your browser thanks to PlantUML Web Server. Just enter a text diagram, and get the result in PNG or SVG format. View this on PlantUML.com >

then you get an ulr to be used as image reference you can enter in source edit mode.

Harald

------------------------------
Harald Hotz-Behofsits
Frequentis AG
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 07-10-2017 05:47
From: Hauke Wintjen
Subject: Re: PlantUML support

Hi Harald.

I tried this but after modifying
/apps/contour/js/ckconfig/jamaConfig.js
to include
config.plugins += ',plantuml';
and to add 'Plantuml' to the config.toolbar_Jama variable, i have the following problems:

1. The text input box for the PlantUML source text is only 2 lines in height.
2. The PlantUML source is discarded (which is stored as "alt" tag of the image) as soon as the item is closed / saved and re-opened.

Did you have the same issues? Were you able to resolve these?

Kind regards

Hauke

------------------------------
Hauke Wintjen
Rimpl Consulting
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 06-29-2015 17:33
From: Harald Hotz-Behofsits
Subject: Re: PlantUML support

You can patch the ckeditor in jama to support this. We hsve testet that. Works also with the latest Version, but do not use it in Produktion.

have not found a better workaround till now.

Harald

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Harald Hotz-Behofsits
Frequentis AG
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-10-2017 08:05
From: Hauke Wintjen
Subject: Re: PlantUML support

Hi Harald.

Thanks for your quick response. Your approach seems to work also but comes with switching to "view HTML source" and then copying / pasting the html link in. Or did you find a better approach?

Kind regards
Hauke

------------------------------
Hauke Wintjen
Rimpl Consulting
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 07-10-2017 07:48
From: Harald Hotz-Behofsits
Subject: Re: PlantUML support

Hi Hauke,

As you recognized it is not perfect. You can change the size by editing the plugin, but there are other issues you will find during use.

We have installed a local plantuml server in our company avoiding the exchange of UML information with a public service. The content of the UML is encoded in the URL and can be edited by pasting into the appropriate fields of Plantuml web GUI.

I would recommand that approach.

You can test the approach by using the PlantUML Web Server

PlantUML.com		remove preview
PlantUML Web Server Create simply and freely UML diagrams from your browser thanks to PlantUML Web Server. Just enter a text diagram, and get the result in PNG or SVG format. View this on PlantUML.com >

then you get an ulr to be used as image reference you can enter in source edit mode.

Harald

------------------------------
Harald Hotz-Behofsits
Frequentis AG
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 07-10-2017 05:47
From: Hauke Wintjen
Subject: Re: PlantUML support

Hi Harald.

I tried this but after modifying
/apps/contour/js/ckconfig/jamaConfig.js
to include
config.plugins += ',plantuml';
and to add 'Plantuml' to the config.toolbar_Jama variable, i have the following problems:

1. The text input box for the PlantUML source text is only 2 lines in height.
2. The PlantUML source is discarded (which is stored as "alt" tag of the image) as soon as the item is closed / saved and re-opened.

Did you have the same issues? Were you able to resolve these?

Kind regards

Hauke

------------------------------
Hauke Wintjen
Rimpl Consulting
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 06-29-2015 17:33
From: Harald Hotz-Behofsits
Subject: Re: PlantUML support

You can patch the ckeditor in jama to support this. We hsve testet that. Works also with the latest Version, but do not use it in Produktion.

HI Harald,

I think you are referring to this: http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/ckeditordemo.html  Thanks for the hints.

Hi Sudha,

However, I had thought that you want to export existing relationships to a report. If you want to draw diagram manually, might consider using Jama's built-in digram editor.

swoo

Hi Sudha,

While not directly answering your question, another thought came to me. I know some people do their UML design and modeling with Enterprise Architecture. Jama does support a fee-based connector. The User Guide has a section on this topic. Good luck. 

swoo

We also are missing the similar PlantUML plugin than the confluence is having.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/41025/plantuml-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview

Any possibilities that this kind of plugin could be supported someday in Jama also?

Päivi

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Päivi Kaste
Qvantel Oy
Nokia
+358504874847
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-29-2015 16:20
From: Sudha Anand
Subject: PlantUML support

Does Jama support plantUML plugin ?

Päivi:

Unfortunately the PlantUML is not currently supported, and I have not seen any plans to do so in the future.

You can make suggest a product idea in our Product Ideas community here.

Regards,

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Chloe Elliott
Jama Software
Portland OR
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-15-2019 06:14
From: Päivi Kaste
Subject: PlantUML support

We also are missing the similar PlantUML plugin than the confluence is having.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/41025/plantuml-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview

Any possibilities that this kind of plugin could be supported someday in Jama also?

Päivi

------------------------------
Päivi Kaste
Qvantel Oy
Nokia
+358504874847

Original Message:
Sent: 06-29-2015 16:20
From: Sudha Anand
Subject: PlantUML support

Does Jama support plantUML plugin ?