Custom properties are messing up glue points

[ryan.barnard]

Hello,

I have a Visio drawing that I'm importing into a .NET application that
needs to know what types of materials the walls are made out of. I
could not find a property in Visio that wall types can be set as, so I
decided to create a custom property called "Material". It takes a
string variable, and I just pull that data from .NET.

But, there is a problem with creating this custom property. I select
all the walls that are to be wood, and go to custom properties, and
create a new one. When I am completed, all the glue points of the
selected walls get completely thrown off. Sometimes a wall that was
just 10 feet long turns 90 degrees and streches out 40 feet.

Does anybody know what causes this, or if there is another way to go
about it?

Thank you,
Ryan Barnard

 

[John Smith]

Definitely a defect in the Microsoft software.

Call Microsoft and force them to fix it.

 

[David Parker [Visio MVP]]

Actually, there already is a custom property called "Material", but it's
label is empty and it is marked as hidden. So just fill in the label, and
unhide. The edit is done in the master. If you are doing this in cod, then
ensure that you use master.open and .close.