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Blueprint Modeler 1.2.0

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@solventarchitect solventarchitect released this 03 Oct 10:01
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Blueprint Modeler 1.2.0 gives the landing page a three-part tour of what the app does and fixes three ways a model could quietly end up different from what you left. As always, models never leave your browser and saved files keep working unchanged.

What's new

Three figures on the landing page (M28). The hero now rotates through three figures on one drawing sheet: the realization chain from Business Capability down to Host; Caught early, where a shortcut from a Business Application straight to a Host is refused with the editor's own message and the Application Service is shown as the route; and Read it in ArchiMate, where the same elements take their ArchiMate types, colors and notation. It changes every 8 seconds, pauses on hover, and has Pause/Play and 01/02/03 buttons. With reduced motion it starts paused and changes without animation.

Fixes

Deleted models stay deleted (M29). Deleting the open model right after an edit could, on a slow machine, bring the model back, and Delete all could leave a second empty model behind. A change still waiting to be saved can no longer write a deleted model back.

Auto-layout stays with its own model (M29). If you opened another model while Auto-layout was still running, the finished layout could move elements in the model you had just opened. It now stops and says so, and nothing moves.

Switching models keeps your last change (M30). A change made a moment before switching to another model (from the model picker, Manage, New, Examples or Import) could be lost. It is now saved first. If it can't be saved, for example because browser storage is full, the switch stops, your change stays on screen, and a message explains why.

Under the hood

The end-to-end tests that failed only on a busy machine were fixed at their cause, not retried away, and each bug fix above comes with a test that failed before the fix.

Compatibility

No change to the model file format: files exported from 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 open as before.

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