Comments on: Data Refresh on Open

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:50:19 +0000

I didn’t see anything in the page or document’s ShapeSheet. But since there’s a bit of VBA code you can inspect and probably massage the location:

? ThisDocument.DataRecordsets.Item(1).DataConnection.FileName
C:\…\…\Desktop\BA.xlsx

You can get the folder where the Visio document resides using:

? ThisDocument.Path

So if your data source is always in the same folder as your Visio drawing (a reasonable thing to do!), then you could concatenate that path together with the Excel file’s name.

By: Wade

Wade — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:30:14 +0000

Hey there, works like a charm, but there is a catch. If and when the visio/data files are moved to another location, the linked data no longer works, cause it can’t find the data file. Is there a way to add the data file to the visio sheet and create a data connection that way? Then if the visio report moved, so would the data file, and no connection errors. If not, is there a way to use the current visio report “path” in the connection string, so if the report was moved, the data file would have to at least be in the same path location?

Any info you could provide would be extremely helpful.

Thanks in advance!

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:33:16 +0000

Yes, it’s exactly the 2010 features I want, but don’t want to wait. Don’t want to spend time developing status dashboards either if there is a way to use Visio.

Thanks again.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:14:19 +0000

I should add that you can change some things in the Visio viewer, such as which layers are visible, zoom level Have a look at: Visio Viewer for Developers Also, Visio/Office/SharePoint 2010 will have something closer to what you might be wanting to do. Have a look at this article: Visio Services and SharePoint 2010

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:00:43 +0000

Hi Kevin,

Looks like the Visio Viewer to me. To get any updates in your visual, you would have to edit the underlying Visio diagram. This can’t be done through the Visio Viewer control – it just presents the Visio diagram, read-only-ish.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:30:15 +0000

I have this is a content editor web part:

codebase=”http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=90&p=&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=d88e4542-b174-4198-ae31-6884e9edd524&u=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2f6%2ff%2f5%2f6f569198-e7d0-49af-b162-54a11f38d301%2fvisioviewer.exe”

Plus the parameters of course.

Thanks for the quick reply.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:14:36 +0000

Hi Kevin,

Are you talking about the Visio Viewer or the Visio ActiveX Control? If you have the ActiveX control on a WinForm, then you should be able to adapt the VBA code in this template to your application’s control.

The viewer probably can’t handle this, as it deals with a static drawing and can’t edit anything.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:18:20 +0000

This is great. Is there a similar way to make data refresh when using the ActiveX viewer? I’d like to use a pivot diagram for a workflow dashboard. It works great via Visio, but I’d like to make the dashboard available to all my MOSS users via MOSS without then having to open Visio, plus most don’t have Visio.

Thanks for any tips.
Kevin