Customizing Document Properties

[Jim Noble]

Does anyone know how, in a template, to create additional document properties?

I have the need to add data to each diagram I create, that is specific to
that diagram.

I would like to have them in the document properties section, so I can fill
them out on a "Save" action.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Hi J,

There are a few possibilities if you are at all "developer oriented"

1. Write extra data to User-defined cells of the Document's ShapeSheet.
2. Write the data to SolutionXml elements in the document.

There's no easy user-interface for adding extra document properties.
Although you *can* add custom properties (Shape Data in 2007) to a Visio
page -- just as you can add them to shapes.

Let me know if anything sounds intriguiging or scary before I futher
elaborate : )

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

Free Visio shapes:
http://www.visguy.com/category/shapes
Visio programming info:
http://www.visguy.com/category/programming/
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http://www.visguy.com/visio-links/