Automated flow diagram creation in Visio 2003

[BK]

Hi,
We are in the process of creating an application interface diagram. as we
have more than 1200 interfaces, manually laying them out is proving to be
impossible and we were wondering if there was any way we could directly
upload a .csv / .xls file into Visio and allow the tool to lay it out for us?
I understand in Visio 2002 there was an option to import .csv files which no
longer exists in 2003. The Org Chart wizard is not much use to us since we
could have one more than one relationship between two objects.
E.g. of the kind of data would be:

Source Target Interface Name
Sys1 Sys2 X1
Sys1 Sys2 X2
Sys2 Sys1 X3
Sys3 Sys1 X4

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Barb Way]

Yes - I am often sorry that we removed the flowchart import wizard.
However, the good news is that the Visio Guy has a post on his blog about
creating your own.
Check out
http://www.visguy.com/2006/09/13/create-visio-flowcharts-programmatically/

Hope that helps!

Barb Way
Product Support - Visio
Microsoft Corporation
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From: <[email protected]>
Subject: Automated flow diagram creation in Visio 2003
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:31:01 -0700

Hi,
We are in the process of creating an application interface diagram. as we
have more than 1200 interfaces, manually laying them out is proving to be
impossible and we were wondering if there was any way we could directly
upload a .csv / .xls file into Visio and allow the tool to lay it out for
us?
I understand in Visio 2002 there was an option to import .csv files which
no
longer exists in 2003. The Org Chart wizard is not much use to us since we
could have one more than one relationship between two objects.
E.g. of the kind of data would be:

Source Target Interface Name
Sys1 Sys2 X1
Sys1 Sys2 X2
Sys2 Sys1 X3
Sys3 Sys1 X4

Thanks in advance for your help.