Cross reference for labels

[Richard]

I have 2 visio pages in a visio document. Each page contains shapes but
the shapes are different in each of them.

Page 1 contains blocks and the label has a name followed by a date
Page 2 contains line and the label in these lines also contains a date.

Now in general for every block on page 1 there is a corresponding line
on page 2. And the date that belongs to the block on page 1 is the same
date that you find on the corresponding line on page 2.

Currently when one date changes I need to make a change to a block on
page 1 and then make a change to the corresponding line on page 2.

I hope that there is an easier way. Something like having a data area
or so with all the date values. The labels should then contains a field
with it's value in this data area. This way I only need to update the
date in the data area and automatically the label on the block and line
gets updated.

Please keep in mind that I have about 50 blocks and lines in total.

Anybody out there who would know what is the best way to do this?


Richard

 

[Richard]

I have found out that the Shapetext formula can be used to 'copy' text
from one shape to another shape. However, my problem is that the shapes
are on different pages and I can nowhere find that it is possible to do
it this way.

Anybody an idea?

 

[Al Edlund]

looks something like this Pages[page-3]!sheet.2!prop.abc
for custom property abc in shape sheet.2 on page-3