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Creating SharePoint 2010 workflows with Visio 2010
The new Office 2010 clients have been released as a Technical Preview and I'm fortunate to get my hands on them and free to talk about them. The new clients are awesome! Visio is one of the applications from the Office suite that I use on a daily basis to design, model and draw diagrams, workflows and solutions. Visio 2010 has gotten a really nice facelift and a whole new set of features.Visio Guy – Shapes, Stencils, Drawings Templates, Tutorials, Tip
Visio Guy reader Sim sent me a request a few months ago for a Divided Box Shape . You know, title at the top, description in the bottom portion. I’ve built lots of variations of this shape over the years, but I thought I’d do a super-duper, ultra-mega version this time. And I even threw in auto-numbering !
Watching TV last night, I caught an ad out of the corner of my eye that had a neat graphic that I translated into a new Visio SmartShape for you to download. But I’m not sure what to do with it, maybe you can help! The graphic that I saw showed this nice, thick black frame, with a caption underneath.
Visio Guy – Shapes, Stencils, Drawings Templates, Tutorials, Tip
Visio Guy – Shapes, Stencils, Drawings Templates, Tutorials, Tip
So I decided to create a Visio Breadcrumbs Shape to help web-site designers more quickly finish their prototypes. This shape incorporates some smart-behavior that should save you a lot of time! Below, we see four breadcrumb shapes, stacked on top of each other to contrast the different item outline styles. But the image also shows two ways to get at the features for configuring the shape.Visio Guy – Shapes, Stencils, Drawings Templates, Tutorials, Tip
Title blocks on drawings are important for many, many reasons. If your company has created more than a small number of drawings, it’s useful to know who created them, when they were created, who updated the drawings, and when they were updated. Often times, copies of a drawing are e-mailed or sent in printed form to customers, installers, contractors, builders, inspectors. For these recipients, contact information and drawing scale data can be of utmost importance. As it turns out, much of the information that is imperative to title blocks is already in the drawing . Through Visio’s SmartShape features, it can automatically be extracted, eliminating the need to re-key it.
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All you need to do is right-click on the little guy and in an instant, you can brighten-up his day, cast a dark shadow, startle him, bewilder him, or bore her to death. If you open the Shape Data window, you can quickly change the letter on her/his shirt and build your own cheerleading squad, complete with moody yell-boys:Ok, so I'm working on something cool and I need an annotation shape and I'm not feeling any of the usual visio stencils. Then I remember an old article by Papa Brownorama - Wireframe Annotations in Visio : Special Deliverable #11 . So I decided to make my own and I have uploaded the result. Mine is a little different in that I don't link the annotation number to the footnote shape but my text sizes with the shape. Have you ever needed a stencil of a vector version of a XML, Word or PDF icon? No... ok.
El Visioso - He loves Visio that much
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Peter O’Brien, who writes the SOA Station: Mind the Gap! blog has created a Visio stencil for making Service Component Architecture drawings. You can download it from his post on the subject: SCA Diagram Stencil for Visio If you’re not familiar with SCA, you might be interested in this introduction from the Open SOA web site: Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a set of specifications which describe a model for building applications and systems using a Service-Oriented Architecture.
A recent Visio newsgroup post asked about customizing the output files from Visio’s Save As Web feature. This rang a bell in the ol’ noggin, and I went searching for an old demo that exported a customized html page, with pop-up menus that displayed Custom Property (Shape Data) information. This demo doesn’t use Visio’s built-in Save As Web feature, but instead uses automation code in the form of VBA stored in the document. But before we talk about code, let’s explain how to use it. The imagined user-scenario goes like this: The user wants to highlight various items in her Visio document, such that viewers of the exported web-page can mouse-over special regions and see a pop-up dialog that displays info about that region.
Visio Guy – Shapes, Stencils, Drawings Templates, Tutorials, Tip
Visio Guy – Shapes, Stencils, Drawings Templates, Tutorials, Tip
Every once in a while, a question comes along in the newsgroups that just screams at me; “WRITE SOME SAMPLE CODE!” Now I can’t describe exactly which types of questions speak to me in this way. Perhaps they’re questions I’ve heard time and again? Or they involve a fascinating graphical problem? Or is it just that I can actually finish them in one evening’s work?
So we’ve had this experimental Visio drawing containing crude attempts at 3D states laying around since 1993. But we only had three states: Washington, Oregon and California. Well after a few years, a few new Visio features, and some wisdom gained, we’ve finally gotten off our butts and written a little code that helped us produce something a little more useful: an entire map of the USA, where each shape can be extruded into the vertical! Below, we can see an example of how the US State shapes can be brought into the 3rd dimension. You simply select a state, then pull on the little yellow Control Handle that appears in the middle of the shape.
Visio Guy – Shapes, Stencils, Drawings Templates, Tutorials, Tip
Visio Guy – Shapes, Stencils, Drawings Templates, Tutorials, Tip
In this article, we share with you a dimension line SmartShape that can be calibrated to a scale on an imported image, and be subsequently used to measure distances in that space. Since Visio is adept at importing images in a variety of formats, it can be a great time savings to start with an image as a background or basis for a diagram that you wish to produce. There are many scenarios where the imported art represents a scaled drawing, be it a map, a floor plan, or some other architectural drawing. In such cases, you might want to be able to accurately show the dimensions of various objects or the distances between points on the drawing.Visio Guy – Shapes, Stencils, Drawings Templates, Tutorials, Tip
Arno Nel has published links to a really cool set of Visio drawings that relate to Microsoft SharePoint on his blog: Arno Nel 2.0 – The Information Worker . The diagrams illustrate models, scenarios, and flowcharts for planning, designing and deploying SharePoint installations. These high-quality Visio drawings were created by Microsoft for the Technet site, and include 16 model diagramss, 18 scenario diagrams and 3 flowcharts relating to SharePoint. That’s 37 awesome Visio diagrams in all!UserFocus has released a cool set of user experience shapes for Visio users that are involved with user experience activities or produce user experience deliverables. This free Visio stencil contains 34 master shapes that will help you to illustrate your research plan and show the types of deliverables you will produce. …is a London-based usability consulting and usability training company.