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[MWAA]

I have this project that I need to be completed soon. However, I will not be
able to finish my project because I can’t figure it out how to link 2 or more
Visio files together, example, if master file changes something, then rest of
Visio file that is link to master needs to be change as well. I have link
from Excel to Visio before, but it seems like there is any functions that you
can link between Visio to Visio file. If you can answer me that please
e-mail me as soon as possible. If there is no way that I can link Visio to
Visio file, is there another way to link them together by using any other
sources???

 

[Al Edlund]

you would have write custom code to do that...
al

 

[MWAA]

do you know about that custom code???

you would have write custom code to do that...
al

 

[Al Edlund]

First you would have to write an application that could be aware of multiple
documents and the objects/fields that have to remain in sync. The challenge
is that with multiple documents you have the exposure that they may in fact
be simultaneously opened by different users/systems, and when this happens
the documents are locked from each other. These are the same types of issues
in writing distributed database applications with parent/child relationships
(i.e. record locks, concurrency, backouts, etc.). If the data was originally
in excel you could consider keeping that as the master and linking the
documents to it.
al