Visual Case - Flow Chart, Case Tool

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Visual Case Tool - Flow Chart Diagrams

Visual Case^TM is a powerful CASE tool for software development, database design, system design, system engineering and business analysis.

Our Flow Chart Tool allows you to quickly create flow chart diagrams with processes, decisions, inputs/outputs, notes and flows.

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What is a flow chart?

With Visual Case's flow chart diagram, you can graphically document the steps used to complete a task. Our flow chart includes decisions, input/outputs, processes and flows.

Visual Case Flow Chart - Flow Chart

You can also add notes to your flow chart that add clarity by explaining particular steps in the flow chart.

Using Visual Case, you can decompose your processes into a new diagram to virtually any level of detail. Each process can contain a child flow chart that describes the flow of the process that was exploded. For example, you could explode Add to Database in the diagram above and create a chart describing the Add to Database process.

You can print and export flow charts, modify object names on the fly and quickly create flows and new object's using our quick links feature. Visual Case also includes many advanced formatting features to align and distribute the objects on your flow chart.

Introduction to Flow Chart Diagrams

With Visual Case, you can create flow charts both complex and simple in very little time, in an intuitive and friendly diagramming environment.

A Flow Chart is a sequential diagram that shows the steps involved in an operation or task and the decisions made along the way.

Flow Chart Objects

Visual Case provides you with the following flow chart objects with which to build flow charts:

	Input/Outputs indicate that there is some form of data exchange on the flow chart. Examples of such exchanges are getting information from a user, reading information from a database, or writing information to the display.
	The decision is used when there is a question or issue that needs to be resolved during the process. The flows out of a decision are labelled with mutually exclusive information (such as yes & no).
	A process is used to show that some task is being performed. Processes represent a complete flow chart from start to finish. For example, if your process is "calculate taxes", than in Visual Case, you can explode into that process and draw a flow chart showing the steps involved in calculating the taxes.
	Notes are used on flow charts to add a description on the diagram for an object. In Visual Case, you can connect a note to any object using a note link.
	The Flows on your flow chart connect the input/outputs, decisions and processes. They indicate movement from one step to the next. In Visual Case, you can label flows with any text that you like. You can also choose between three styles of link: segmented, direct and quadratic (shown from top to bottom respectively).

Flow Chart Example for Software Evaluation

Flow Chart - Sample Diagram

Above is an example of a flow chart created with Visual Case. Some important things to note are:

The two flows leaving Activate Trial License are labelled with mutually exclusive text. Either one or the other will be followed, but never both. It is important that there is always only one path through the process defined by the flow chart.
The three processes are not necessarily atomic actions. They can each be decomposed into their own flow charts that specify the steps involved. In Visual Case, processes on decomposed diagrams can be further decomposed to virtually any limit.

Now that you have the basics on how to create a flow chart, download Visual Case and get started!