Comments on: Text Along a Connector’s Path in Microsoft Visio 2010

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:29:54 +0000

I think Visio has to tread a fine line between general-purpose and special-purpose. With Visio 2010 (Premium), they’ve added a lot of process-specific stuff. This will help a lot of people, but it could get in the way of non-process diagramming folks and third party solutions. The Visio universe is tricky because it is so huge.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:22:48 +0000

I understand better now

So the question is still open :
Why it isn’t built into Visio 2010 ?

Pierre

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:56:13 +0000

Hi Pierre, It isn't an easy thing to do. The point of this article is to show that it *can* be done. It requires using Visio's ShapeSheet, something that takes a while to learn. I have considered making a more advanced shape, but is probably something that I will have to create for sale because I don't have a lot time these days for give-aways. Thanks for visiting the site and asking questions, by the way! Chris

By: Pierre

Pierre — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:29:54 +0000

Well, I must have missed something.
The fact is that I’m very disturbed by the Visio 2010 ribbon interface.

I found how to rotate the text manually along the connector but not how to have the text of the arrow follow automatically its direction !

Pierre

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:17:34 +0000

Pierre,

I don’t understand your question. It IS built in Visio 2010, and could only be built in Visio 2010, because it uses new ShapeSheet functions.

Of course I could add the other functions, but so could you! Thanks for the ideas.

Chris

By: Pierre

Pierre — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:17:29 +0000

Great, it is exactly what I was looking for !

But really, really why it isn’t built in Visio 2010 ??
Really wired.

Then Chris,
to be complete how easily you could add the sub-menus :
Along connector at Middle
Along connector at Beginning

By: muguk

muguk — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:38:03 +0000

This looks like it could solve a few problems for me. Many thanks.

By: Jock

Jock — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:55:41 +0000

Of course two connectors would look pretty silly if they followed different routes between the objects, so only really useful for straight connectors.

By: Jock

Jock — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:51:51 +0000

Jeremy,

a cludgy but effective solution would be to create two connectors between your objects, one in each direction.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:46:14 +0000

Now if i could get this for text at both ends at the same time, that would be perfect.

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:25:24 +0000

Hi DaveC, Check out this article: Making Bends in Visio's Dynamic Connector

By: Visio Guy » Making Bends in Visio’s Dynamic Connector

Visio Guy » Making Bends in Visio’s Dynamic Connector — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:19:12 +0000

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By: DaveC

DaveC — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:51:37 +0000

How do you get this connector to do the fancy zig-zag paths?

By: Visio Guy

Visio Guy — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:50:18 +0000

Don,

The angle of the text automatically matches that of the connector.

What you are referring to in previous versions of Visio was the ability to manually position the text somewhere along the connector. To do what I’ve created would require you to 1. move the text box and 2. rotated it to match the inclination of a portion of the connector.

The illustrations above look obvious and unimpressive because the behavior is natural and correct. But we really haven’t seen this possibility (without code) until now.

By: Don Sadler

Don Sadler — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:36:54 +0000

Doesn’t this functionality exist already in Visio 2007? I can position text on a connector by using the text block tool (click on the little down arrow on the text tool icon on the toolbar).