Workflow design often takes a lot of communication and collaboration. Business stakeholders may send IT professionals business flowcharts to further automate as workflows. On the flip-side, once the IT professional has implemented the workflow, he/she may want to store the workflow as a Visio diagram so that all stakeholders are clear on what is being…
Year: 2010
The Point Along Path ShapeSheet Functions in Visio 2010
In a previous blog post about new ShapeSheet functions, we introduced a set of new functions called the Point Along Path functions. These functions allow interactions with geometry paths of shapes. This post provides more detail about these new functions. The following functions open up a broad set of shape interactions for shape and solution…
Custom Containers, Lists and Callouts in Visio 2010
In previous posts we introduced you to Containers and some of their special capabilities. We also introduced Lists through their use in Cross-functional Flowchart, Data Graphic Legends and Wireframe shapes. Finally we introduced Callouts as annotations on Visio diagrams. Containers, Lists and Callouts can be used in a wide variety of diagram types. This article…
The Diagram Validation API
Diagram Validation is a new Visio 2010 feature that provides a way for users to check their diagrams for common errors and for companies to ensure that employees are following certain diagramming standards. The basics of diagram validation and creating custom validation rules have been previously discussed on this blog. In this post, we focus…
New ShapeSheet Cells and Functions in Visio 2010
Our previous post introduced the improvements we made to the ShapeSheet window for shape developers. In this post, we will continue with ShapeSheet development and dig deeper to examine the new ShapeSheet cells and functions available in Visio 2010. New Cells A number of new cells were added to both the PageSheet and the ShapeSheet…