Versatile PlantUML Plugin
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The home of the Versatile PlantUML Plugin for Atlassian Confluence and Jira and coming soon for monday.com!
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This is the PlantUML plugin documentation - if you’re looking for our Mermaid plugin documentation it’s here → https://purplerhapsodytech.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VMP
What is the Versatile PlantUML Plugin?
In a nutshell it is a way of using the PlantUML language to generate technical UML diagrams directly within the Atlassian Confluence or Jira Cloud products or on monday.com. If none of those terms mean anything at all to you then the plugin is probably not for you!
This page is general information about the plugins - for specific functionality for each plugin please see:
https://purplerhapsodytech.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VPP/pages/26837026
https://purplerhapsodytech.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VPP/pages/26902565
https://purplerhapsodytech.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/VPP/pages/125468673
What is PlantUML?
PlantUML is a pseudo-code way of generating diagrams quickly without worrying about pixel-positioning that traditional drag and drop diagram creation requires. It lets you take pseudo code like this:
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@startuml
Terry -> Jody : Hello()
Terry <-- Jody : returns "hello yourself"
@enduml
And auto-generate a diagram like this:
PlantUML handles a huge number of diagram types:
Sequence Diagrams
Usecase Diagrams
Class Diagrams
Activity Diagrams
... and so much more - check out the PlantUML site for more details.