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Create custom templates for Visio web app

  • Comparing Visio for the Web and Desktop
  • Customising Visio shapes for the web app
  • Key differences between the Visio desktop and web apps

Visio Data Visualizer, Visio in Teams and Power Automate Flows

  • Using the Visio Data Visualizer in Excel
  • Using Visio in Teams
  • Creating Visio Tabs and Apps for Teams with SharePoint Framework (SPFx)
  • Designing Power Automate Flows with Microsoft Visio

Innovative uses of Visio Lists

A special type of container is a list, and there are only a few places where you can see this feature being used in the out-of-the-box Visio, so I have made a few more examples of how lists can be used.

Visio Accessibility Guide

Vision up your Visio diagrams

Go beyond Visio’s simple accessibility functions and ensure everyone in your team can unlock the full value of your diagrams.

Get a free guide to ensuring that your Visio desktop and online diagrams are accessible and compliant to WCAG 2.0.

Visio Accessibility guide

Power up your Visio diagrams

Power BI can provide un-paralleled self-service dashbords and reports. The custom Visio visual for Power BI adds to much more capability to integrate all those diagrams with data from almost anywhere.

Get a free guide about creating stunning, data-driven diagrams, floor maps and flow charts in just three key steps.

Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio book

Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio helps you understand why it is crucial to use a common, systematic approach to document the steps needed to meet each business requirement. This book explores the various process flow templates available in each edition of Microsoft Visio, including BPMN. It also shows you how to use them effectively with the help of tips and techniques and examples to reduce the time required for creating them, as well as how you can improve their integration and presentation. 

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Mastering Data Visualization with Visio book

Microsoft Visio is a data diagramming application that has so many uses beyond merely pretty artwork.

Master the art of presenting information visually using Microsoft Visio desktop by making shapes respond automatically to data value changes or learn how to easily extract data from structured Visio diagrams.

The cover may say Visio 2016 but all this applies to Visio 2019 and Visio Online Plan 2.

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Microsoft Visio Business Process Diagramming and Validation book

The structured diagramming built-in to Microsoft Visio is ideal for custom process diagramming, complete with rules to validate that the diagrams are well-formed.

This is the only book that explains how you can write custom validation rules to ensure that your team are creating all types of diagrams correctly and consistently.

The cover may say Visio 2013 but all this applies to Visio 2016, 2019 and Visio Online Plan 2.

Visio 2010 MVP Sessions

Microsoft asked three Visio MVPs to present a series of 24 videos explaining different aspects of Visio 2010.

Each spoke of this wheel provides a description and a hyperlink to the video on YouTube.

It may say Visio 2010 but most of this applies to Visio 2013, 2016, 2019 and Visio Online Plan 2.

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Visualizing Information with Microsoft Visio book

Get full details on the powerful features of Microsoft Office Visio 2007 inside this comprehensive volume. Written by Visio expert David Parker, Visualizing Information with Microsoft Office Visio 2007 demonstrates how to effectively visualize, explore, and communicate complex business information.

The cover may say Visio 2007 but a lot still applies to Visio 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and Visio Online Plan 2.

Visio Learning Resources

There are a number of Visio learning resources on the web, from MIcrosoft, fellow MVPs and other experienced Visio professionals.

Visio Online Business Process Mapping

“I just wanted to add my thanks for all your help in getting this project up and running. I think we now have a product that far exceeds what we had previously, and we move [our organisation] into a much better position for integration across all of its domains and locations.”

Phil Sheldrick, Head of Quality Control, DE&S, Ministry of Defence

What do you do when you your organisation is undergoing a digital transformation by migrating all your IT systems into Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint Online, and you have a legacy process mapping application that is contains vital business information but is incompatible going forward?

[Read more…] about Visio Online Business Process Mapping

Products

Existing and potential Visio user products


Shape Report Converter

Shape Report Converter is an add-in for Excel that converts an exported Visio Shape Report to a table.

Once a Shape Report range has been converted to a table, then you can:

  • Enhance the table with the Table Design ribbon
  • Create more reports with Get & Transform Data
  • Create infographics with Charts
  • Use as a source for Visio Visual in PowerBI


SS Plus

Microsoft Visio Plan 2 has a cool, but flawed, feature called Slide Snippets. SS Plus is an add-in for Visio Plan 2 that makes the automatic creation of PowerPoint presentations from Visio a reality.

LayerManager


LayerManager

Microsoft Visio has perhaps the most flexible layering system of any drawing package, but with that comes complexity. LayerManager is an add-in for Visio that allows you to tame that complexity with groups and named sets of layers that can be controlled with on-page buttons or a dockable window.


visViewer 4th edition

Microsoft Visio is a most useful and versatile diagramming application that has the ability to include information with every single item. Although Microsoft Visio is inexpensive, and widespread, there are, unbelievably, still some people who need to see Visio documents but do not have the actual application available.

Metro Icons

Microsoft have unleashed a new exciting, interface paradigm on the world with Windows 8. The Microsoft Design Language (formerly referred to as the Metro UI) puts data to the forefront.

You can now add Metro style icons to your Visio diagrams with over 1,700 different vector SmartShapes split into 19 different stencils.

Rules Tools

Add an interface to create and edit Validation Rules in Visio

multiSelect

Increase your productivity by adding many extra selection actions to Visio

pdSelect

Increase your productivity by adding many extra selection actions to Pivot Diagrams in Visio

Multi-Language Text

Add multiple-languages text to a single Visio document.

Document Imager

Automatically create multiple image exports from Visio documents.

MVPSessions

Learn Visio 2010+ from three MVPs

Each Visio 2010 MVP Session provides the understanding needed to get started using Visio 2010 and to solve a specific challenge or apply a specific feature or technique.

Explore the contents of Microsoft Visio 2013

Have you ever wondered what is provided with each edition of Visio? The master shapes in each stencil? The stencils in each template? The addons in each edition? eXplore Visio answers all these questions, and lists a number of on-line resources and publications to further your knowledge of Visio.

Published on September 15, 2015 by David Parker

Limited time offer to buy my book half-price!

Those kind people at Packt have decided to offer my book for half-price from 16th until 24th September 2015!

Visio Validation Rules book coverok

Please visit www.visiorules.com for more information… and it is valid for Microsoft Visio 2016 too!

Filed Under: Books, Visio, Visio 2016 Tagged With: Validation, Visio 2013

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 ).

[Read more…] about Visualising SharePoint and SQL Data with Visio Professional

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

Published on March 3, 2014 by David Parker

Mapping SharePoint List Columns to Visio Shape Data Types

The shape data in Visio 2013 diagrams can be linked to many external data sources, and one of the most useful is a SharePoint List. However, the Shape Data rows have a smaller number of expected data types than the column types that are available in SharePoint. This article begins an exploration of the mapping of SharePoint list column types to Visio data types.

The Type cell of a Shape Data row defines the data type, which is a number from 0 to 7, that is stored in that row.

Data TypeDescription
0String
1Fixed List
2Number
3Boolean
4Variable List
5Date or Time
6Duration
7Currency

The Format cell can modify the display of Value, or can provide the option values for the two list types.

[Read more…] about Mapping SharePoint List Columns to Visio Shape Data Types

Filed Under: Shape Data, SharePoint 2013, Visio, Visio 2013 Tagged With: Visio Services

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