Exporting connecting lines from visio to excel/db

[Dr Mike Bienvenu]

Greetings.
We have large, complex system interface diagrams in visio - lots of boxes
for the systems, and connecting lines between the boxes for interfaces. once
all the shape info is exported, how do I tell what lines connected which
boxes? I would hate to have to look up the start/end coordinates and
correlate them against the rectangle outlines.
I would love to hear that it's something like the connector has a shape ID
for the shape it connects to at its source end, and another shape id for the
shape at the head.

thanks much

 

[Al Edlund]

The good news is that they do have id's. The better news is there are
examples in the visio sdk on how to extract the data from a drawing. There is
also an example on how to chase connections (a drawing explorer).
al

 

[Dr Mike Bienvenu]

Thanks!! Am going thru the SDK now. I do appreciate the pointer.
-Mike