Visio shapes can contain hyperlinks. When you drag a shape from a stencil to the drawing, a macro can retrieve the shape's hyperlink and display the Web page in an anchored window. For example, suppose you are a sales rep designing a network configuration for a client. As you drag compo...
the Visio engine creates a copy of that master on the drawing'sdocument stenciland creates aninstanceof the master on the drawing page. A drawing file always includes a document stencil that contains copies of the masters used in the drawing, even if the corresponding shapes are later deleted...
In the rest of this article, you learn how to build a Visio Add-in.Creating a Visio Add-InIn the following procedures, you create an add-in for Visio 2007 in Visual Basic.Net. This add-in retrieves sales information from a Microsoft SQL Server database, and then adds shapes to a ...
We created complex geometry using shape operations to make construction easy. Then we built a multi-shape with special behavior to selectively display the geometry. Finally the components were wrapped in a group to control the multi-shapes from a single input value. The clock in this example use...
Adding shapes to the process map is done the same way as for a basic flowchart. However the auto connect may not work effectively, requiring the use of manual connections. Click on the Connector Tool on the main toolbar. Hold your cursor over the first shape you want to connect until it...
In general, you use the following procedure to create a subprocess diagram programmatically. To create a subprocess diagram programmatically Create a process-diagram document in Visio 2010, adding shapes, as appropriate, to represent the overall process. ...
Visio stores data about shapes in a drawing in a ShapeSheet spreadsheet, in the Shape Data and User-defined Cells sections. Visio also stores shape data in the Data1, Data2, and Data3 properties of the Shape object. You can set the values of cells in the Shape Data section of the ...
A Visio solution can quickly become overburdened when a drawing contains many objects, or when bulk operations (such as moving many shapes at a time) occur. Event filtering allows developers to tailor the events their solution listens to, and prevents many of the events they don't want to ...
The Diagram Validation feature is available only in Visio Premium 2010.By providing a way to automatically verify a diagram, Visio reduces the amount of time you must spend manually reviewing diagrams for errors. For example, Visio can detect issues such as shapes that are not labeled or connec...
In Visio, create the floor plan drawing that you want to display, and then save it to the same SharePoint document library as a .vdw file. Link the shapes in the drawing to the data in the spreadsheet. Create a SharePoint Server 2010 Web Parts page to display your drawing and contain...