# Support for plantuml graphics

**URL:** <https://community.bluespice.com/t/support-for-plantuml-graphics/150>\
**Category:** Discussion/Misc\
**Created:** [June 21, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.bluespice.com/t/support-for-plantuml-graphics/150 "2024-06-21T15:17:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![JMV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@JMV](https://community.bluespice.com/u/JMV)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.bluespice.com/t/support-for-plantuml-graphics/150/1 "2024-06-21T15:17:55Z")

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Hello. It would be really great if bluespice could support plantuml graphs.  
Integration would be similar to the drawio one without the need for a graphical user interface as plantuml allows to do graph that a purely described as texts.

> **[Open-source tool that uses simple textual descriptions to draw beautiful UML...](https://plantuml.com/)**
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> Easily create beautiful UML Diagrams from simple textual description. There are also numerous kind of available diagrams. It's also possible to export images in PNG, LaTeX, EPS, SVG.

In edition mode, one would edit the graph “text”  
In display mode, bluespice would display the generated image.

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**Author:** ![mlink-rodrigue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@mlink-rodrigue](https://community.bluespice.com/u/mlink-rodrigue)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 11:52am UTC](https://community.bluespice.com/t/support-for-plantuml-graphics/150/2 "2024-06-26T11:52:55Z")

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Hi JMV,

welcome to this forum! Thanks for your suggestion regarding plantUML. At the moment, we have no plans to add another diagrams tool to BlueSpice.

The already bundled DrawioEditor allows to add UML shapes (but has no option for text-editing).

I hope this info helps.

Margit

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**Author:** ![JMV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@JMV](https://community.bluespice.com/u/JMV)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://community.bluespice.com/t/support-for-plantuml-graphics/150/3 "2024-06-26T12:11:21Z")

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Hello. It is a pity as plantuml is very usefull to describe and maintain sequence diagram using textual descriptions. I agree that other features like uml “static views” can be easily described using drawio. supporting plantuml shall not be that complex as a media wiki plugins already exist to do so:

> **[Extension:Diagrams - MediaWiki](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Diagrams)**