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Archives for July 2010

Visio in Concert!

July 22, 2010 by Visio Guy 17 Comments

Early Saturday morning, I received a pleasant Visio-related suprise.

Tired as I was, it was great to see that concert organizers were using Visio plans to layout the stage for our upcoming performance!

[Read more…] about Visio in Concert!

Filed Under: Drawings & Templates, Space Planning Tagged With: floor plans, Scale, space plans

Sample Chapter for Rules & Validation Book

July 21, 2010 by Visio Guy 2 Comments

You might have heard about David Parker’s new book about Visio 2010 Premium’s Rules and Validation for process diagramming.

We’ve just discovered that there’s a free chapter available online, so you can kick the tires before you buy!

[Read more…] about Sample Chapter for Rules & Validation Book

Filed Under: Business Process Modeling, Development, Flowcharting, News, Process Management, Tools, Visio 2010 Tagged With: BPM, BPMN, David Parker, rules, validation

New Book: Visio 2010 Rules, Validation & Business Process Diagramming

July 19, 2010 by Visio Guy 2 Comments

Visio 2010 Premium introduces powerful mechanisms for validating diagrams to insure graphical and semantic correctness. Not only does this feature allow end-users to check and correct their diagrams, it enables developers to create custom rule sets to validate corporate- or discipline-specific diagrams.

David Parker’s new book: Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation explains Visio diagram validation, the APIs behind it, and helps you to build tools to make it all easier!

[Read more…] about New Book: Visio 2010 Rules, Validation & Business Process Diagramming

Filed Under: Business Process Modeling, Development, Flowcharting, News, Process Management, Tools, Visio 2010 Tagged With: BPM, BPMN, David Parker, rules, validation

Add Spice to Your Visio Skills With Randomization!

July 16, 2010 by Visio Guy 2 Comments

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Unfortunately, no one can be told what the ShapeSheet is. You have to see it for yourself.

Visio SmartShapes can be so much more than just clip-art. This is because the ShapeSheet allows shapes to  behave in intelligent ways, carry data and react to that data.

One under-used, little-known function is RAND(), which allows you to add randomness to your drawings. Randomness can not only be “neat-o”, but also useful. Come in and see why!

[Read more…] about Add Spice to Your Visio Skills With Randomization!

Filed Under: ShapeSheet Tagged With: Backgrounds, ShapeSheet Formulas, ShapeSheet Functions

SharePoint 2010, PowerPivot, Visio 2010 & Real Estate

July 12, 2010 by Visio Guy Leave a Comment

There’s a lot of buzz lately about Visio Services for SharePoint 2010.

It looks like it’s appeared on the Real Estate industry’s radar, as they seek to use tools to make their business more efficient.

[Read more…] about SharePoint 2010, PowerPivot, Visio 2010 & Real Estate

Filed Under: Power User, Visio 2010 Tagged With: Integration, SharePoint, Visio & SharePoint

Stress Test: Nesting “IF” Functions in the ShapeSheet

July 10, 2010 by Visio Guy 2 Comments

A Visio Guy forum member asked the question: “How many nested IF statements can I stuff into a ShapeSheet formula?”

“Good question!”, I thought and went off to investigate!

[Read more…] about Stress Test: Nesting “IF” Functions in the ShapeSheet

Filed Under: Code, ShapeSheet Tagged With: ShapeSheet Formulas, ShapeSheet Functions

Visio 2010 Flowchart Shapes Get Smarter

July 1, 2010 by Visio Guy 10 Comments

Visio 2010’s flowchart shapes have gotten smarter.

See how they save you work when you add lots of text to them!

[Read more…] about Visio 2010 Flowchart Shapes Get Smarter

Filed Under: Flowcharting, Power User, ShapeSheet, Visio 2010

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