Link witrh variable

[José Luiz]

Hello, im making a network diagram and i need to put a link in a form (PC)
data brings information from the form data (a field name NAME) when i click
on the computer on diagram they need to open a link that goes to
http://servernae/hardwareinventory=@NAME


that brings to me the hardwre inventory from that machine, and if i put
another name like ie pc01 the link goes to

http://servernae/hardwareinventory=pc01


Thanks

 

[John Goldsmith_Visio_MVP]

Hello Jose,

I'm not clear if you're talking about a web page or a straight Visio doc
(.vsd)? Can you give more details?

Have a look at this link and let me know if that helps:

http://visualsignals.typepad.co.uk/vislog/2009/04/save-as-web-url-parameters.html

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith (Visio MVP)
www.visualSignals.typepad.co.uk
www.visualSignals.co.uk

 

[José Luiz]

Hi john, i solved that question importing a view from sql, now i got another
doubt.
there is a way to make dinamic html pages from visio??

Im generation a html from a visio that got data from an excel document and a
sql db, but when data changes on the excel or sql the html does not change,
and if i open the vsd the information are updated.

Thanks and your link helped me about the lin question.

 

[John Goldsmith_Visio_MVP]

Hello Jose,

Glad you've fixed your first problem. Regarding your dynamic html question,
the answer is no, not out of the box.

Basically, Visio's Save As Web output is a one way street and so you'd have
to deal with the refreshing of the data or republishing the html.

If you're fields are fairly static (ie the shapes and custom properties
remain the same) and just the underlying data is the thing that's changing
then you could probably update the data.xml file that contains the web page
properties.

Have a look at this link if you need to understand the structure of the Save
As Web output better:

http://visualsignals.typepad.co.uk/vislog/WindowsLiveWriter/SaveAsWebStructure.png

Looking to the future, the next version of Visio will deal with just this
scenario. You can see some brief details here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2008/02/06/visio-vnext.aspx

Hope that helps.

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith (Visio MVP)
www.visualSignals.typepad.co.uk
www.visualSignals.co.uk