Sample Banking Scandal Visio Flowchart
Today is Friday, so I thought I’d have some fun.
I saw an interesting-looking flowchart in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and thought I’d play around with Visio 2010 and see if i could re-create it.
The article Brisanter Deal – Codename ”St. Pancras” described how banks in Hamburg and Munich devised a scheme to get red of unsightly debt on their records. While that sounds very important and grown-up, I mostly just liked the colors and the look of the flowchart.
That big, red X is pretty cool:
In my continuing mission to push Visio into the realm of respectable graphics, I thought I’d give Visio 2010 a whirl and recreate that das Flussdiagram.
You see, I rarely actually use Visio. I’m too busy developing custom shapes and solution-code. So today I put on my end-user hat and created this diagram using Visio 2010, and no special features. No ShapeSheet, no VBA code,
It was hard, but I perservered. *sniff*
I didn’t use any shapes from the flowchart stencils, but simply drew rectangles and connected them using the connector tool. Using buttons on the ribbon tabs, I chose text, line and fill formatting, just as an end-user might.
Here’s the result:
Wait, now that I think of it, those little, coffee-colored Kredit shapes were created using the fragment function. That’s a bit of an advanced feature, but still, it is a button on the Ribbon (well, on the Developer tab…) I guess you could create the shape by simply drawing jagged lines with the line tool.
Anyway….
You can download and experiment with the file here. Note that it is in Visio 2010 format, but doesn’t use any special features, so it should work with Visio 2007 and Visio 2003.
Kreuz-banken Flowchart (Visio 2010) (30.67 KB) - downloaded: 109 
