You can’t directly put jump from a hyperlink in a Shape Data field, but you can certainly type a URL in as the data.

If you add hyperlinks to the shape, they could refer to values in the Shape Data, however. You could set this up by linking the ShapeSheet cell “Address” in the hyperlink to a particular Shape Data field.

Yes, you can do this with macros and VBA. With Visio automation, you can open and save Visio documents. You can scan through all of the shapes in a Page.Shapes collection and make changes.

You can get an idea of how Visio automation works from these articles:

Combo Box Table of Contents

Connect All Shapes to Each Other

Create Visio Flowcharts Programmatically

I have a problem.
I made a few changes in the textfield section of a text box (under a group) in a few Visio templates (.vst files). I have hundreds of such templates and all those require the same changes. Making changes on all these templates manually is time consuming. Is there any way where i can automate this? May be a macro or something else??
please help me on this.

Thanks,
Satz

I was wondering if you could please help me with the following:

I have currently 100 boxes with texts inside them. I want to search for the text inside those boxes that i shall manually select and want visio to automatically position them.

For eg:

IF Selected_Shape contains “Cat”

then Move selected shape to (0,-4)

ELSEIF Selected_Shape contains “DOG”

then Move Selected_Shape to (3,-5.7)
and so on

I am a total amateur to Visio VBA. Please can you help.

Thanks

I’m afraid I don’t know what you mean by fixed amount of text. I could select a shape and type “Fixed amount”, and that would be, erm, a fixed amount of text wouldn’t it? So I’m obviously not understanding your question.

- Chris

Diane

When you ungroup, you destroy the group. If there were any references or smart relationships with the group, then of course they will be gone (where would they go?)

But you can open a group instead of ungrouping. Select a grouped shape, then go to Edit > Open [shapename]. You’ll get a new window that is a view inside the group.

That should save you some time!

- Chris

Glad to hear you figured it out!

- Chris

Thanks for your reply. i was able to control the length of the page number using the formula which u had posted earlier
please ignore the previous post.

thanks a ton
satz

I am displaying the Page number in a background shape. i did this using Insert-> Field-> Page Info category. this places a method PAGENUMBER() on the text field cell of the shapesheet. i feel that this PAGENUMBER() method just automatically adds a page number when a new page is included in the vst file (in sequence).

1. I wanted to know where i can use the formula which u have mentioned in the above writing.
2. I read the article u had specified which shows “A;B;C” for the date. how can i modify it for my case.

Please not that I am an amateur in Visio. I am still learning the basics of it.

Thanks a million,
Satheesh

Another Visio Guy article has an example of a shape that has variable formatting for one of its data fields. Have a look at it: Title Block #2: Let’s Make a Multi-field SmartShape!.

The ShapeSheet has a FORMAT function that is similar to other applications. You’ll need to do something like:

shp.Cells(“Prop.Date”).Formula = “FORMAT( dateval, \”00\” )”

Assuming that your shape text is linked to a Shape Data (Custom Property) value. If you are programmatically inserting a field then your code will be different, but the formula will still be similar.

Thanks in advance,
Satz