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Data Graphics

Published on April 11, 2012 by David Parker

How to have six icons in a Visio Data Graphic Icon Set

I was recently asked to represent the values of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in Visio. Great, I thought, this is just what Visio’s Data Graphic Icon Sets are for! Only trouble was, that there were six possible values for the KPI, but all the example Icon Sets have a maximum of five icons in them. So, I had to come up with a way of displaying six icons …

In the following example, I have defined a Shape Data row with a Fixed List type that can have a value from the list “3;2;1;-1;-2;-3”

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I applied the Faces Icon Set, and set icons for each value, except for –1:

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Filed Under: Data Graphics, Shape Data, ShapeSheet Formulas, Visio, Visio 2010 Tagged With: Data Graphics, Icon Sets

Published on January 31, 2011 by David Parker

Using Character Map Symbols as Data Graphic Icons

I attended the ninth DDD on Saturday (see http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/ ), and, as usual, there were many interesting presentations. Sam Bourton extolled the virtues of Microsoft Expression Blend for WPF and Silverlight developers (NOT designers note!), and he showed a neat trick to create icons quickly by using Wingding symbols. Basically, he created a text block in Blend, inserted a symbol from one of the three Wingding fonts character maps, then converted the symbol to a path. It struck me that we could do a similar trick in Visio to create Data Graphic Icon Sets cheaply … so here goes…..
In this example, I am using a Process shape from the Basic Flowchart stencil because it has a Status Shape Data row that is defined as a choice from six different values (the first value is an empty text string).

Choice of Values for Status Shape Data row

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Filed Under: Data Graphics, Shape Data, ShapeSheet Formulas, Visio, Visio 2010

Published on April 22, 2010 by David Parker

Displaying the RGB values of Shapes

Everyone knows that you can change the colour of Visio shapes.  Most people know that you can also change the fill pattern too.

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Filed Under: Color, Data Graphics, ShapeSheet Formulas, VBA, Visio

Published on June 19, 2008 by David Parker

Enhancing Visio Data Graphics Text Callouts

Visio 2007 Professional introduced the wonderful Data Graphics feature to display Shape Data in a clear visual way, but it is not clear how you may, for example, change the font of even the simplest Graphic Item type, Text Callouts.  In this blog, I’ll show you one method that I employ to vary the appearance of Text Callouts.  The same technique can be used for other Graphic Item types, Icon Sets and Data Bars.

I am using the  the sample IT Asset Management drawing to demonstrate throughout, which can be found in the Samples Template Category.  In this diagram, the server shapes on the topology page use the Topology 1 Data Graphic, which can be seen in the Data Graphics panel.

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Filed Under: Data Graphics, Visio

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