Comments on: European Cup 2008 Auto-Updating Visio Diagram

By: Philippe C

Philippe C — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:26:44 +0000

I am more interested in the pre-Enlightment sideshow or in future football

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:32:05 +0000

Hi Ian,

Never expected a serious inquiry on this post!

I think you are in need of the mythical “Global Stencil” or “Shared Masters”, which don’t exist, due to the local copies of masters that exist in the Document Stencil of every Visio file.

So you might need a tool that can replace or update masters that are already in use. There are a few mentioned in this thread on my forum: Update/Replace Shapes Addon

Are your shapes changing physically, i.e.: in how they look, or are there data fields behind each master/shape that are changing, or both?

If the utilities aren’t quite what you need, then Visio can be automated (as you have noticed) in quite sophisticated ways. My guess is that you’ll probably need something along these lines, since it looks like you are updating the layout of shapes, not just individual items.

Let me know either way!

- Chris

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:01:16 +0000

Hoping you can help me on this, given your auto updating scenario! If there is a team of 6 analysts all using Visio to create application wireframes; where the core framework such as top/side navigation need to be kept consistent. Is there a SYNCH type function whereby a master template/asset can be updated and when the analysts SYNCH up their version all of the master assets they have used in their Visio file are updated automatically??? Thanks in advance for any help on this…

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:27:22 +0000

Yes, but the Dutch were the best team, or at least the best to watch, and they’re just about the only team in the tournament that doesn’t wear RGB(255,0,0)

Ok, the Germans are black and white.

I’m not a big soccer fan, because it doesn’t involve a little hard ball and a piece of tree, but I love the spectacle, as long as the fans don’t beat each other up. If you didn’t have things like this, you wouldn’t even know what ‘normal’ is!

3 months ’til Oktoberfest.

By: Lars-Erik

Lars-Erik — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:44:36 +0000

Been told they deserved to lose…
At least now everything can return to normal… I was getting rather sick of the:
- Drunken supporters
- Orange flags and crap all over the place
- Annoying commercials
- Stupid football songs on the radio

The country can now, finally, return to ‘normal’

And it saves people who live in Vienna from ever getting in contact with Dutch supporters!

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:30:04 +0000

…er Russia 3-1…doh!

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By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:12:28 +0000

Ok Folks,

Croatia lost to Turkey on penalties: 1-1 (P 1-3) I can hear the Turkish honking in the streets.

Anyway, the code doesn’t yet know what to do with penalty situations, so I’ll post a fix in time for the Netherlands victory over Russia on Saturday

By: Philippe C

Philippe C — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:59:15 +0000

That’s what I thought.
But I didn’t know how to check that at dataaccess.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:30:18 +0000

Hi Philippe,

Thanks for the sharp eyes

I checked a text-dump of the web-service info. They haven’t updated the participants for the semi-finals yet, even though they should have. Let’s give it another day.

I’m hoping for a penalty-kick situation tonight so I can see if anything breaks, then I can upload all the improvements.

- Chris

By: Philippe C

Philippe C — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:29:21 +0000

It worked fine utill now.
Germany has won but has not yet taken its place in the Quarter Finales.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:56:32 +0000

IE7: nothing to do with it.

You have to install Microsoft Office XP Web Services Toolkit 2.0

Update icon? There’s an Update button on the Visio drawing page, when you open the drawing in Visio. Doesn’t work with the Visio Viewer. You have to have Visio installed.

Good luck,

- Chris

By: Roger Cox

Roger Cox — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:37:29 +0000

Cannot get the bracket to work. Security settings info does not match the sample screens using IE7 with the visioviewer installed. What’s up? The Update icon appears but does nothing.

By: Lars-Erik

Lars-Erik — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:35:54 +0000

LOL @ the 3rd movie! It’s hilarious!

By: garlandkr

garlandkr — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:05:17 +0000

cool! not sure if i’ll use it because i have visio at work and don’t want any spoilers as i watch the matches at home after recording.

if the oranje can keep it going like that they’ll do very well, but i still have them as bowing out against france in the semis!

Les Bleus!!! =)