Chapter 4, Visio Formulas. The topic you requested is included in another documentation set. For convenience, it's displayed below. Choose Switch to see the topic in its original location. As a solution developer, you need precise control over the appearance and behavior of the shapes you create. You can change a shape's default behavior and enhance what it can do by editing its formulas. Many other Microsoft® Visio® objectsfor example, pages, documents, masters, guides, and stylesalso have formulas you can edit. This chapter introduces basic concepts and terms about Visio formulas, such as the following: In this chapter How to display custom properties as text in Visio. This article explains how to display text that is derived from a shape's custom properties in Microsoft Visio. In this article, the "process" shape from the Basic flowchart stencil is used for illustration purposes.
If you use an alternate shape, make sure the shape has custom properties, and that you have entered values into the custom properties. This article assumes that you have used the ShapeSheet before and are familiar with adding sections and typing formulas. A simple example Drag the "process" shape to the drawing page. Right-click the shape to enter values into the three custom properties (cost, duration, and resources).
Determining the valid row names For a shape that already has custom properties, it is necessary to determine how to properly reference the custom property rows. A complex example The simple example works satisfactorily to display one custom property. Collapse this imageExpand this image Figure 1 A more complex example: Choosing to display or hide custom properties. Visio2000: Controlling the Starting Page Number of Your Visio Drawings. This article shows you how to start page numbering with a number other than the default page number for a particular page. You might want to do this if you were creating a multiple page document with a title page and an index page. In this case, you would want page 1 to be the third page of your document.
For additional information about how to set up automatic page numbering for a new drawing, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ( ) Visio: How to Use Background Pages to Set Up Automatic Page Numbering To set up the starting page number: On the first page of the drawing, draw a rectangle where you want to place the page number. Article ID: 255102 - Last Review: January 27, 2007 - Revision: 1.1 Microsoft Visio 2000 Standard EditionMicrosoft Visio 2000 Professional EditionMicrosoft Visio 2000 Technical EditionMicrosoft Visio 2000 Enterprise Edition Retired KB Content Disclaimer.
Designing Visio Formulas. Designing good Microsoft® Visio® formulas requires more than correct syntax. A shape developer needs to understand where a shape obtains its default formulas, the advantages and disadvantages of storing formulas in certain cells, how to protect custom formulas against inadvertent changes, and how to control formula recalculation for best performance. In this section How Shapes Inherit Formulas When you open a ShapeSheet® window, a formula you see in a cell might be inherited from a master or a style. Rather than make a local copy of every formula for a shape, an instance of a master inherits formulas from the master and from the styles applied to it.
You can tell whether a formula is local or inherited by the color of its text in the ShapeSheet. To restore an inherited formula to a cell, delete the local formula. Note In earlier versions of Visio, geometry formulas were always local. User-Defined Cells and "Scratch" Formulas User-defined cells Sheet.2! Scratch cells Protecting Formulas. Visio - the interaction designer's nail gun (3rd edition) Interaction Design Association.