Expandible/Collapsible Labelling of Events in Visio

[robert32]

Hi,

Are there any diagram options in Visio that allow you to make the labelling
of a particular event collapsible?

For example, if building a flow chart for a piece of software, one module or
class may have a set of methods, each with a particular name, who each have a
set of parameters.

Therefore, the diagram object would consist of:

*name of module
*list of all methods (where each item on the list is expandible to give a
nested list of parameters)


For example:

Person
+Appearance
-height
-age
-eyeColour
-weight
+Personality
-temprement
-intelligence

Clicking on either 'Appearance' or 'Personality' would either expand or
collapse the method to view or hide the parameters.

Is there a way of doing this?


Any help would be appreciated.



Cheers,

Rob.

 

[WapperDude]

In your example, would "Appearance" and "Personality" be separate shapes
under a person shape? Then, are the characteristics another shape that
hides/appears or can it be floating text next to the shape?

Wapperdude

 

[WapperDude]

Not aware of any such option.

Probably could be done with VBA or C# programming.

If there are only a few instances where this needs to be done, then,
possible, but clunky, by editting shape sheets. Would need to edit the
method shape sheet and the corresponding parameter shape sheet. Clicking the
method shape would allow parameter shape to be visible or hidden. Once you
do it for one pair, you can copy and paste for the other pairs, and then
update the sheet references to point to the desired shape.

Wapperdude