A problem with draging master to a drawing

[Shai]

Hi,
I wanted to set several custom properties to a master, so
when I drag it to the drawing and run a script I'll know
that those fields exist. My problem is that when I drag
the master to the drawing all it's custom and user defined
properties disappear from the ShapeSheet.
If anyone can tell what I'm doing wrong...
Thanks,
Shai

 

[David Parker]

Check three things:

1. Are you editing the master on a global stencil or on the document
stencil. It may be that you already have a master called the same, but
without properties, in the local (document) stencil.

2. You may have added the properties and user cells to the masters page
accidently, and not to the shape itself

3. You have more than one shape in the master page. If this is the case,
then Visio will automatically group the shapes on drop, effectively creating
another shape, and thus assignig your desired shape as a subshape.