Shapes have a shp.ContainingPage, shp.ContainingMaster or shp.ContainingShape (sub-shapes of groups). I would have preferred .ContainingPage to work for both pages and masters, but oh well.

But you don’t have to go that far. Once you have a master, you can get it’s PageSheet, ie: mstCopy.PageSheet. This is a ShapeSheet, essentially the same as a page, but with slight variation in cell names.

If you want to hide text on a shape, you don’t want the “master wrapper”, you really want the shape. So you should do something like this:

If mstCopy.Shapes.Count > 0 Then

Dim shp As Visio.Shape
Set shp = mstCopy.Shapes(1)

‘// You don’t need the extra step of the cell object
‘// but it makes the following code easier to read:
Dim c as Visio.Cell
set c = shp.CellsSRC(visSectionObject, visRowMisc, visHideText)

// Several ways to set a cell’s value or formula:
c.ResultIU = 1 ‘// 0 = false, 1 = true in the ShapeSheet
c.Formula = “TRUE”

End If

In your code you were doing:

shp.CellsSRC(visSectionObject, visRowMisc, visHideText) = true

but you should do something more like:

shp.CellsSRC(visSectionObject, visRowMisc, visHideText).ResultIU = 1

as the code snippet above shows.

This seems to point to the first the first shape in the grouped shape and not the containing “wrapper” shape.

My goal is to perform the following on a master shape in the stencil using the code in this article:

shp.CellsSRC(visSectionObject, visRowMisc, visHideText) = True

If I run this code against a shape object on the layout page created from a master, it is executed against a parent shape object that may or may not contain additional shapes ~ shape.shapes.count > 1 = true ~ the shape is grouped…

So inspecting the master of the shape I see the same internals, namely shape.shapes.count > 1 = true. The assumption with the above is that the first shape is assumed to point to the container shape or a grouped object? I would expect based on the shape object model something like this to be the suggested approach.

Set shp = mstCopy.Shapes(1).RootShape

For a grouped shape on the layout page RootShape points to the desired containing shape, however for a master shape RootShape = nothing.

What is the suggested approach to reference the RootShape of a master shape?

Many thanks,
Yousuf.

That’s a pretty small question that requires a really big answer!

You might try posting your question on our Visio Guy Forum and try to be a bit more specific as to what you need to do, and what you don’t understand.

I just want to create a visio application using .net with a textbox and a image insertion. Please anyone can help me.

1. Right click a master
2. Choose Edit Master > Master Properties…
3. Un-check: Generate icon automatically from shape data

I would like to program it automatically using vba.

This article is about programmatically editing masters.

To manually create a master, you just drag from the drawing to a stencil. It’s best to group whatever you draw first into a single shape first (Shape > Grouping > Group or Ctrl + G)

You can create a new stencil in which to create the master via:

File > Shapes > New Stencil

Or you can put the master in the “local” stencil of a document:

File > Shapes > Show Document Stencil

Stencils that open with Visio templates (as purchased from Microsoft) are non-editable. Stencils that you create open read-only when opened with a template. But you can click on the icon in the top-left corner of the stencil and choose “Edit Stencil” to make it writable.

I draw a picture in visio. I would like to save the picture as master in stencil. Is there a way to create a new stencil and add the picture as master in it? I tried to google it and still couldnt find any way to do it. I also try to make a dummy stencil and try to edit it as what u shown above. But it still doesn’t work. Can anyone please help me out. I’m sort of stuck in here.

Thanks in advance…

Try this article: Just For Starters

i’m new with vba and macro. I tried to run your code but it requires me the insert macro. Can u please explain to me how to run the code. Thanks.

I am working on a project where in I need to save the properties of master in to SQL DataBase, is there any way to accomplish this. I have done allot of googling for but did’nt any useful article hope you can help me.

Its Urgent..
Please reply

The Visio.Application object has an add-ons collection. You can start there…

Also, for general questions, not related to the Visio Guy article, please try our forum: http://www.visguy.com/vgforum

Cheers,

Chris

I would like to create a macro to run the add-ons. Can someone please tell me how? Thanks!