editable text on background?

[Philipp]

I have my company outline frame as a background in visio. There are fields to
enter name, date, page-number, revision, drawing-nr.

I want a textfield, that is in the background, that the user can set in the
front-pages, that are created from the background.

Why is this not possible? This should be possible, maybe by a tag: Editable.

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

Interesting request. I like it.

So you are looking for the ability from a background page to reference a
custom property on the foreground page that the background page is attached
to.

I do not think it is currently possible (but I am eager for DP or Chris to
prove me wrong). I'll pass the request on.

John... Visio MVP

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[David Parker]

Since a background page can be the background of multiple pages (which can
be foreground or background pages), it is not a simple request .... I know
that =PAGENAME() does show the foreground Page name, but that is the
exception .... currently
I always put the title blocks on the foreground page - they don't have to be
selectable, as they can just display page properties. Most of my templates
have code to automatically add the title block whenever a new page is added

 

[WapperDude]

There is at least one except to this, and that would be the Page# shape on
the General-Title Blocks stencil. It may be placed on the background page,
but, it will show the correct page number for each foreground page, e.g., 3
of 17. Usually, that's the only item that needs to change.

Wapperdude

 

[John Marshall, MVP]

If you look at the Page Info choices for Insert Field, you will find the
limited selection of foreground information that you can use, page number
and page name.

If you disect the General Title Block you will find that it is using the
page number field.

John... Visio MVP

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