I have been tasked with creating a company org chart. I have the 2007 version. What I have done thus far, is create a basic Excel spreadsheet and imported the information over to Visio (just a trial run with about 20 people). The org chart I need to create is for a company of 120 people. I need to be able to manipulate the information so that I can create mini-org charts from various depts and yet have one major org chart for all depts. I also need to show on the org chart how many people are allocated per certain departments/positions, how many positions are filled and how many positions need to be filled. What do you suggest is the best way to accomplish this?

Like the article says, a colleague submitted these shapes, so I don’t know much about them, as I haven’t studied them.

As to the blank stencil window, try zooming way out. Sometimes Visio drops masters “way off the page” when you make a new master. I don’t know why. And the page size is usually the same as the master, so “way off the master page” might not really be that far.

For stretching groups, there is a setting inside of Format > Behavior > Repostion Only that is supposed to fix this, but it doesn’t seem to work every time.

You could ungroup the shapes, resize just the outlines, then reposition the terminals, then group them all together again. Or go into the ShapeSheet and GUARD() the Width and Height formulas to fixed sizes instead of group-proportions.

- Chris

Glad the shapes could help. These were submitted to me by a friend who just quickly whipped them together. One of these days we’ll have to update them.

Thanks for the hard work. I was trying to help an older gentleman connect his componets and it helped me and him.

Suggestion: Make connectors like on this one:

http://sonydb.isomedia.com/EN/tutorials/homeav/hookup_20_c.pdf

Thanks again!!!!!

1) The RCA sockets are easily distorted. For instance, re-sizing the RCA AV shape will allow it to stretch the RCA sockets tall or wide. I can’t figure out how to fix the master in the stencil so that resizing will preserve aspect ratio. Any tips?

2) When I drag a shape from the stencil onto the drawing area, then from there back onto the stencil to make a copy of it, then try to edit that new copy of the shape, the stencil master editing window comes up blank. Can anyone explain why?

Could you email me a copy of that HDMI shape? (And any other shaped you have for A/V use?)

timhoutman [at] verizon [dot] net

E-mail me for it: “ryan eight six one three at comcast dot net”

Ryan

Great work and looking forward to seeing updates, when you have time.

FYI – I have back plate images from my manuals etc that I will use to super impose these shapes on top of, then delete the back plat image for a clean look.

Again Thanks.

Would really appreciate it.

Thanks
Capeiron