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Published on April 15, 2021 by David Parker

Visio 2010 MVP Session videos reprise

Back in 2012, my fellow Visio MVPs, Scott Helmers and Chris Roth, and I recorded a series of 24 videos about Visio 2010. They were first hosted on Microsoft’s web site, then they put them up on YouTube, they they got deleted :-(. Well, we have managed to retrieve them, and put them back up on YouTube in a new list :-). Most of them are still very relevant and useful!

See Visio 2010 MVP Sessions – YouTube and The Visio 2010 MVP Sessions .

Filed Under: Callouts, Containers, Data Graphics, Database, External Data, Floor Plans, Hyperlinks, Layers, Lists, MVP, Network Diagrams, Org Charts, Process Flows, Scale, Shape Data, Shape Reports, Validation, Visio, Visio 2010, Visio for Desktop Tagged With: MVP Sessions, Visio

Published on April 11, 2019 by David Parker

Sorry about Brexit

In these days of political uncertainty in the UK, and our position in Europe or the world, there is only one thing that I can say: Sorry about Brexit … in every main language of the EU countries!

Sorry about Brexit
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Filed Under: External Data, Multi-Language, Visio Tagged With: Data Import, Excel

Published on March 7, 2019 by David Parker

Changing Visio Shape Size and Angle with Linked Data

I was recently laying out a computer room floor plan to scale in Visio, from survey data of the cabinets\racks within it, and it occurred to me that I could work a bit smarter than I first thought. Originally, I was going to just add lots of rectangles, size them, rotate them, and label each them with their name. Then I thought, why not use the Width, Depth and Name columns from the survey data to do most of the work for me? It was so simple to do, and only took a few minutes, so I thought I would share my methodology because it demonstrates how easy it is to work smarter with Visio….

These are the simple steps shown above, written out for your education….

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Filed Under: Excel, External Data, mFormula, ShapeSheet Formulas, Visio Tagged With: Shape Data, Shape Design, ShapeSheet, ShapeSheet Functions

Published on January 10, 2019 by David Parker

Replacing Images in Visio Shapes by Changing Data

I wrote an article last year about Swapping Images in a #Visio Shape manually, but I want to be able to do this whenever a Shape Data value changes. This is because I use I invariably use shapes linked to data. I also want to be able to have multiple images within a single grouped shape, and all of them changing when their referenced Shape Data values change. I believe that this will be more adaptable for a lot of scenarios than trying to repurpose Data Graphic Icon Sets ( see  Make Your Own Visio Data Graphic Icons Sets … automatically). I also discovered that the Shape.ChangePicture(…) function can just as easily work with urls as it can with network file paths, so even more possibilities are opened up! For example, the Visio Online JavaScript API has the ability to overlay an image (see ShapeView.addOverlay(…)).
So, I have created some macros to provide quick and easy selection, positioning and updating of images within a group shape.

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I decided to present this article with VBA code rather than my preferred C# so that a stencil could be downloaded to provide instant usability, rather than having to install an add-in. It can be download from Image Utils.vssm, and should then be placed in to My Shapes folder, so that it becomes available to open in Visio. When it is opened, then the macros will need to be enabled.
There are just five public macros:

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Filed Under: Excel, External Data, Geographic, Images, Org Charts, Shape Data, VBA, Visio Tagged With: Link Data to Shapes, Macros, ShapeSheet, VBA

Published on March 3, 2017 by David Parker

Managing People, Processes and Performance in PowerPoint? There is a better way!

I will be presenting a webcast on Thursday, March 23 | 12.00 to 13.00 (UTC) demonstrating how data-linked diagrams can provide a much more efficient and dynamic method for operational intelligence than PowerPoint.

Follow this  link to register : http://bit.ly/2m2sPOv
 

Filed Under: Data Graphics, External Data, Org Charts, Process Flows, SharePoint, Visio 2016, Webcasts Tagged With: Excel, Office365, Visio, Webinar

Published on August 12, 2015 by David Parker

Visualising SharePoint and SQL Data with Visio Professional

I will be venturing to the dark side of the moon on Saturday 12th September 2015 at SQL Saturday in Cambridge, UK ( see http://www.sqlsaturday.com/411/EventHome.aspx ).

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Filed Under: External Data, Shape Data, SQL Server, Validation, Visio 2013, Visio Services Tagged With: SharePoint 2013, SQL

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