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Preparing for Visio Web Access control events

The Visio Web Access (VWA) web part for SharePoint 2010 can be used to display and interact with Visio documents. The VWA web part includes a Shape Information pane that can be used to display the hyperlinks and shape data of each Visio shape. This article describes how to control the information that appears in this pane.

The Visio Web Access web part for SharePoint 2010 itself has the ability to inhibit interaction with hyperlinks or shape selection by using the Edit Web Part properties panel.

The hyperlinks of a shape can still be available from the Shape Informtion pane, if you have not hidden it.

Active hyperlinks on a shape can get in the way of selecting it in the VWA web part, so Disable Hyperlink is usually required.
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MVP Conference 2010 and Visio Services

I went to the annual MVP Conference in February, and had a really good time, as usual.  It is great to see so many people who give their time and expertise for free in all areas of technology, but the highlight for me (besides the skiing on the Saturday) has to be meeting with the Visio product team for two days.  We really feel that they listen to us, and we like to hear what they might be considering for the future.  I presented my take on the forthcoming validation API in Visio 2010 Premium (did I mention I am writing a book about it?), and others presented their areas of interest.  One bit of Visio that stood out was the potential of Visio Services with SharePoint 2010.  Obviously the Microsoft Visio team were excited about this, and the Visio MVPs are relishing it too, but what about the rest of the world?  Well, I think the message is getting out … hopefully Visio will no longer be Microsoft’s best kept secret!

For example, in December I noticed that Dave McMahon of the very active NxtGen User Group (no longer available) presented about Visio Services.  I was unable to see his presentation but he has blogged about it. Very nice article … I look forward to Part 2 🙂

I think that SharePoint (and web) developers will now see how compelling data-linked diagrams are, and hopefully will demand more and better Visio diagrams.  Microsoft are moving Visio into the Business Intelligence division now (which is where I always thought it should be anyway).  We Visio developers have got to embrace this wave, or we will get over-looked, and others will attempt to produce visualizations without the richness that we could offer.

To this end, I have managed to create a dual boot laptop with Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 Server which has SharePoint 2010 with Visio Services, so that I can explore the possibilities opened up by this new Visio SharePoint integration, and I will be presenting some of which I discover at the Microsoft TechDays in April.

I will be writing some blogs about Visio Services in SharePoint 2010 in the future but for now, please check out these resources:

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Visio Insights – Introducing Visio Serviceshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Visio-Blogs-Archive/bg-p/VisioBlogsArchive
Visio Insights – No Code Mashups with Visio Services and Web Part Connectionshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Visio-Blogs-Archive/No-Code-Mashups-with-Visio-Services-and-Web-Part-Connections/ba-p/237608
Visio Insights – The Visio Services JavaScript Mashup APIhttps://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/blogs/visio-services-javascript-mashup-api/
Visio Insights – Using a Visio Process Repositoryhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Visio-Blogs-Archive/Using-a-Visio-Process-Repository/ba-p/237473
Visio Insights – Publishing Diagrams to Visio Serviceshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Visio-Blogs-Archive/Publishing-Diagrams-to-Visio-Services/ba-p/237483
Visio Insights – Embedding a Web Drawing in a SharePoint Pagehttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Visio-Blogs-Archive/Embedding-a-Web-Drawing-in-a-SharePoint-Page/ba-p/237488
Visio Insights – Installing and Configuring Visio Serviceshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Visio-Blogs-Archive/Installing-and-Configuring-Visio-Services/ba-p/237494
Configure Visio Serviceshttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/SharePoint/administration/configure-visio-services

Finally, here is a superfluous photo from my time at the MVP Conference – well post-conference actually. Left to right : Jonny and Richard Smith (Microsoft – thanks for the Nordic skiing), me, Michel LaPlane (MVP Visio in France), Lamie Kim (not an MVP from S.Korea), and Scott Helmers (Visio MVP USA) – all enjoying PFChang’s in Bellevue!

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