Group of multiple shapes each having its own custom properties

T

Todd

I am trying to build a network diagram with extensive detail. For example a
server shape with a hard drive shape and nic shape all grouped together.
When I click on the server I want to see a summary of information about the
server. When I click the hard drive and or nic shapes that are nested on the
server shape I will see the detailed custom properties about each of those
devices.

I had though about hyper linking to another sheet with that detail but if I
can do it within the same shape that would be cleaner and easier. If there
is a better way than I am thinking would also apprechiate it.

Thanks
 
A

Al Edlund

how are your coding skills? a little bit of work and you could probably
implement either snmp or wmi to interrogate the product directly. in either
case the level of granularity you are attempting to do a drill down on (at
least in the current version) would probably require you to do some coding.
the next version (visio12) will have some datamining/linking built in that
should be easier to get to.
al
 
V

vojo

two ways:
- set up the group so members are selected first, then have a boolean
variable to hide/show the detailed settings. its pretty sublte but
basically you have change group modes based double click to allow you to
play with member shapes then double click to return to group mode.
(I did this, it took a couple of days, worked well but does not work with
viewer)
- Use action buttons at the group to select/reveal specific member
info. Basically, action sets the indices to enable desired member custom
properties, then use docmd(1312) to show them. (I have used this in the
past as well)

Another related approach is to use user/custom variables to tunnel down to
the shape (ie custom propertie screen to pick the member,click ok, new
custom propertie screen for member pops up, do what you want, click ok,
the group privately resets to do this scenario again when you want).

Note all three are done without VBA so you dont get into the whole
security mess. As a side bar it would be nice of VISIO would create a
secure
"shell" where VBA can only act on the current drawing or act on only the
current directory that way one could fence off all the security issues.
 

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