ClarisImpact Flow Chart and Organizational Charting tools are designed to compete with leading dedicated programs such as TopDown and OrgChart Express by Kaetron Software Corp., OrgPlus for Macintosh by Banner Blue Software, or EasyFlow by HavenTree Software. Many of the features found in these programs can be found in ClarisImpact.
Features include displaying names in a multiple of ways, moving objects freely with links, assigning different connection line widths to objects, and publish and subscribe. Other features which can be found in both ClarisImpact and dedicated products are:
· Drawing boxes and connecting lines automatically
· Formatting with style sheets
· Custom chart styles
· Custom border styles
· Different levels of magnification
· Customizable and ANSI symbol
· Auto Line rerouting when moving or resizing objects or symbols
· Color picker and pattern support
· Frames automatically expand or shrink when adding or deleting symbols
· Import custom symbols
· Word wrap
· Find and change
· Open multiple documents simultaneously
· Columns inside symbols
· Create dividers inside symbols
· Ability to change measurement size (i.e. pica, metric, inches)
· Manual or full control over connecting line placement
· Header and Footers with automatic page numbering (ClarisImpact Report Document)
· Auto connect multiple symbols to one symbol
One of the major advantages ClarisImpact has over dedicated packages is its ease of integration: the Flow Chart or the Organization Chart can be placed and edited in a ClarisImpact Report or Presentation. Placing or importing a chart created by a dedicated package into a word processing or presentation software package would involve exporting and importing using a compatible file format. ClarisImpact eliminates the need for import and export since these tools are easily accessible in the Draw, Report, or Presentation modules.
Several features not supported in the ClarisImpact Flow Chart and Organizational Chart which are supported by dedicated packages include:
· Password protection for sensitive data with multiple levels
· Page view
· Collapse or expand branches
· Export DXF, GEM, HPGL, PCX, SYM, WPG
· Printing languages ESC-L graphics, DMPL and CaPSL
· Text binding to connecting lines
· Database (Note: in ClarisImpact, you can create tables)