Published Visio diagrams can include hyperlinks which allow users to navigate to: other pages in the same diagram, other pages in other published diagrams, even other sites using standard URLs, when the diagram is published to Visio Services as a Visio Web Drawing (VDW) file. These hyperlinks are available whether you view the published diagram…
My published diagram is not refreshing from my data source
When you connect data to your Visio diagram using the Data Linking wizard, there is one option to be aware of which is easily overlooked that may cause the data in your shapes to never update when your external data set is refreshed. If you look in the Configure Refresh dialog there is an option…
VWA.Shape.addHighlight method supports color names as well
The MSDN article that describes the use of the addHighlight method for the VWA.Shape object (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff394531.aspx) states that the color parameter must specify a color using the “#RRGGBB” hexidecimal color format, for example… nextShape.addHighlight(4, "#FF0000"); I wanted to point out that the color parameter will also accept Color Names as described in the HTML and…
Testing Rendering and Data Refresh for Visio Services
I have been asked what cache settings I use on my test/development server when testing the rendering and data refresh features of Visio Services. I have the cache settings on my test server set so that the diagram is rendered and refreshed each time I visit the diagram or press the “Refresh” button on the…
Visio Services refresh errors
I just wanted to drop a quick note to all of you who are publishing data connected diagrams to Visio Services…If at first you do not succeed verify your data connection via the client! Some errors are fairly obvious as you can see by the error in the first screen shot below. The key here…
Promoting Visio Drawing Metadata to Document Library columns
Today Someone asked me if it was possible to promote metadata from within a Visio diagram when the diagram is uploaded to a SharePoint 2010 Document Library. Certainly. There are a number of methods to promote metadata to columns within a document library however for this example I will focus on metadata that is stored…
Force data refresh for published diagrams
When you publish Visio diagrams with Visio 2010 Professional or Visio 2010 Premium using the new Web Diagram file format (VDW), Visio Services can render these diagrams in the browser. Better yet, if these published diagrams are linked to a supported data source Visio Services can refresh the linked data in the diagram as well,…
Visio Shape Property Viewer visual web part v1.0
I am releasing a Visual Web Part that I have developed that is to be used in conjunction with the Visio Web Access web part to give you an alternate ( and more customizable ) method for viewing the Shape Data property values and Hyperlinks for a shape that you select from a published Visio…
Overwriting cell formulas with FormulaForceU
Recently I was attempting to use the FormulaU method of a Cell object to set the formula of the cell, but each time I tried to call the method I was prompted with a ‘Circular formula reference’ error. This was a little puzzling as the formula I was trying to write to the cell did…
Showing status with the Timeline shapes
In a previous post I release a new version of the Bracket Interval shape which allowed you to switch between Horizontal text and Angled text. Rotate text on Timeline shapes I recently updated this shape and the built-in Bracket Interval shape so that the line color can be formatted automatically using the Color by Value…