Internet solutions on ConceptDraw base
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What may interest developers of Internet solutions in ConceptDraw?
Use it for:
- site maps (building and analysis)
- maps of network computers
- domain maps
- maps of available resources
- maps of the sites with necessary information
- visualization of HTML-, XML- data
- visual construction of web-pages
- visualization of any other data
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Internet can be viewed as some resources (web-pages, files, ...), connected
by hyperlinks, or as computers connected by communication environment, or as
a set of domain names, whatever... up to being distinguished as necessary or
unnecessary information. In any case, you can always find the needed structure
for data, which most fully meets your requirements, and fully visualize it in
ConceptDraw.
ConceptDraw is a good means of visualization of information
of any kind, as it features powerful graphic capabilities. Thus, on ConceptDraw
graphic kernel the rest products of the line have been built, they are: ConceptDraw
Project, ConceptDraw MINDMAP, ConceptDraw
Presenter. The powerful graphic kernel (2D-graphics) is supported by
a number of open formats for data presentation (including XML).
Add to this flexibility processing of data connected with scripting language
ConceptDraw Basic (appeared in Version 5). And also flexibility
in parameterization of the shape provided by the whole shape parameter table
(it is available for editing even right from the program's interface). So it
becomes clear in the end that visualizing of information in ConceptDraw
is a good idea.
Benefits:
- a number of templates and libraries with ready-to-use shapes
- powerful graphic capabilities (2D-graphics)
- scripting language ConceptDraw Basic
- possibility to use external shared libraries
- 4 open text formats
- XML support
- support of ODBC-á®mpatible databases
- multilateral parametrization of shapes
- crossplatform (Mac, PC)
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There are two approaches to interaction with ConceptDraw at
visualization.
- By an arbitrary, attached to no specific program, method you can save your
data in one of the open ConceptDraw formats, leaving visualization
and further processing to ConceptDraw.
- In case 2, ConceptDraw Basic handles a part or the whole
cycle (formation-reading-visualization of data).
The first approach is convenient for sparing you as a developer the necessity
of writing the code to generate data in one specific system. You can choose
the most convenient or the most familiar environment for your task. As ConceptDraw
"reads" four open text formats (Outline format, Flowdata
format, XML for ConceptDraw and XML for Visio), the situation
is possible, when you will not have to write the code by just using some commercial
program's export capabilities. For example, you prefer to get your data ready
in MS Visio. In any case, the variety of open formats allows
to choose the most suitable one for task: from Outline, good entirely
for presentation of hierarchies (but the simplest and the briefest one) to ConceptDraw-document
XML which reflects any peculiarities. Third-party program has an opportunity
of presenting its data by means of ConceptDraw providing the
user with rich possibilities for their further processing (print,
scaling, export to other formats, any corrections etc.).
With the appearance of such a tool as ConceptDraw Basic a
closer integration of your programs with ConceptDraw is possible.
They can be implemented as scripts and run directly
in ConceptDraw environment. This fact cancels all restrictions
that are connected to the final number of formats read by the program. The scripting
language has its own quite broad capabilities, including interface for interaction
with ODBC-compatible databases. Besides, its capabilities can be enhanced on
the expense of using the external modules (of shared libraries), created by
other applications.
Let us consider several instances of visualization which may turn attractive
to a developer of internet solutions.
In the package of ConceptDraw Professional Web Site Map
Wizard is included. It builds the site map with the specified depth level or with no consideration of the depth, but within the domain name. It
results in generation of the site map. It gives the user an opportunity to arbitrarily
change the generated map (add or remove elements, change their sequence or depth,
change the text, type and parameters etc.), export the map to other popular
formats, provides a number of opportunities for changing the document appearance (scaling, changing of colours, fonts and styles ) and, of course, full-color
print. An additional convenience is that ConceptDraw allows
to send a link to the web-browser for viewing the document on this link in the
browser window. Thus, the information output has been considerably simplified
and functionality of the wizard considerably extended.

The resulted from the work of the wizard document contains the menu item to
solve the reverse task. It builds the site frame by the map. The map, used at
building, can be generated by the same master. With the help of ConceptDraw
the user can independently create a map of any complexity by using the wizard
library objects, as well as arbitrary shapes. Also ConceptDraw
allows to make all necessary changes to the map made on the existing sites.
The conception of using ConceptDraw and open formats by the
programs working with Internet can be used for displaying of any data and of
any structure in Internet. You can build a map of the computer network, a domain
map etc. And if regard Internet as the total of the information necessary for
you and spam, you can create a solution to search Internet for the given information
and build the site map which meets your requirements. Then, with the help of
ConceptDraw you can look through the map, selectively view
your files, remove the sites from your map that have not answered your expectations,
and modify your map in an arbitrary way.
Knowing HTML, you can write a solution to analyze web-documents by
tags and display the result in ConceptDraw. The reverse task
in its elementary shape is, basically, solved by ConceptDraw.
But if for some specific applied goals you need another variant of the final
HTML-file, another solution could create an HTML document
on the data in some other open format, generated with the help of ConceptDraw.
Then, the process of creation of web-pages will turn an easy and visual constructing
of a ConceptDraw document.
The development of XML technology and the appearance of new browsers
that support XML, leads to a gradual displacement of HTML
and setting XML as a de facto standard. XML support in ConceptDraw
will allow you to fully effectively get your documents ready to be published
in Internet, and will considerably extend opportunities of the programs using
ConceptDraw as the means of visualization of their data.
ConceptDraw can be used as a means of visualization and further
processing of information not only by the programs working with Internet, but
also in any other field: network, database, analysis of the file system, analysis
of any schemes etc.
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