Many years ago, I wrote a blog article about calibrating a map in Visio ( see http://blog.bvisual.net/2008/09/30/moving-between-visio-and-kml/ ), but I used VBA and a shape from my friend Chris Roth / VisGuy. Well, I have now worked out how to calibrate a map without code!
This could be especially useful now that MapPoint has been deprecated
Exiting news for those of you who want to try the new version of Office, including Visio. The new Visio features include:
My fellow MVP for Visio, and author, and friend, Scott Helmers, has recently presented a series of videos entitled “Becoming a Visio 2013 Power User”. Scott is a natural presenter, and he does a great job in getting the fundamentals across.
There are two ways that I know of to see these videos:
Microsoft Virtual Academy : http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/becoming-a-visio-2013-power-user
Channel 9 : http://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=Becoming%20a%20Visio%202013%20Power%20User#lang-en=en&ch9Search
Highly recommended.
Scott also patrols Experts Exchange : http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Office_Productivity/Office_Suites/MS_Office/Visio/
Visio Professional has the ability to link to various data sources, and one of the most popular is SQL Server. The DATA\Link Data to Shapes … function will present a UI to choose from a table or view, but does not provide any stored procedures. Therefore, this article present a VBA macro that demonstrates how a stored procedure can be added as a refreshable data recordset in Visio.
[Read more…] about Linking Data to Visio with SQL Server Stored ProceduresI had an enquiry recently about displaying Organisation Charts with text in different languages. This set me thinking, and, if you have Visio Professional, then you can use Link Data to Shapes to add this capability to existing diagrams, but Visio Standard users can just the Org Chart Wizard.
I will use the OrgData.xls file that is provided in the <Program Files>\Microsoft Office\Office 15\Visio Content\<LCID>\ folder to demonstrate this. I have English US (1033) and Norwegian Bokmal (1044) available to me, as shown below:
In Englsih
I described how and why I sometimes link a SharePoint document library to Visio documents in a previous article ( see http://blog.bvisual.net/2015/02/10/displaying-sharepoint-document-library-column-values-on-visio-services-diagrams/). I mentioned that I always switch off the visibility of some columns because they are rarely needed in my Visio shapes as shape data rows. In this article, I present a VBA macro that can switch them off for you, therefore ensuring consistency.
The Link Data to Shapes feature in Visio does not allow for filtering of columns or rows when SharePoint lists are used as a data source. One answer is to create a view of the list in SharePoint to restrict the rows and some columns, but other columns still get pulled through to the External Data recordsets in Visio by default:
[Read more…] about Making unused data-linked SharePoint columns in Visio invisible automatically