Location of stencils

[JasonPoole]

Under the 'File' menu is an entry called 'Shapes'. This entry expands to a
structured presentation of all the stencils catagorized and sorted. Where
are these stencils located, and how do I add more from an earlier version?

Thanks,

JP.

 

[Paul Herber]

Under the 'File' menu is an entry called 'Shapes'. This entry expands to a
structured presentation of all the stencils catagorized and sorted. Where
are these stencils located, and how do I add more from an earlier version?

There should be a folder called My Shapes in your My Documents, put
your stencils in here, creating a folder here will create a new
category of that name.

 

[JasonPoole]

There should be a folder called My Shapes in your My Documents

Understood. But as the system admin, I need to put these where everyone
will find them. They have to exist somewhere on the system already. I just
need to know where Visio is finding these files now. Do I have to do a
search over the entire network for the stencil files, or is there a place to
look ( menus, registry, etc. ) for the folder that Visio automatically
searches for these files?

 

[Paul Herber]

Understood. But as the system admin, I need to put these where everyone
will find them. They have to exist somewhere on the system already. I just
need to know where Visio is finding these files now. Do I have to do a
search over the entire network for the stencil files, or is there a place to
look ( menus, registry, etc. ) for the folder that Visio automatically
searches for these files?

Visio keeps its own stencils in a folder and has its own method of
managing and arranging them, we can't change or add to that.

It then adds any stencils in My Documents/My Shapes

the next option is to use the stencils file paths
menu Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> File Paths
and set the Stencils path with a ';' separator between multiple paths.

 

[JasonPoole]

Visio keeps its own stencils in a folder and has its own method of
managing and arranging them, we can't change or add to that.

the next option is to use the stencils file paths
menu Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> File Paths
and set the Stencils path with a ';' separator between multiple paths.

Thanks Paul. Will work with the second option. I noticed in the registry
that there seems to be a structure with coded strings. I assumed that the
application is aware of the structure, and the classid's. Didn't figure I
could do anything about that in terms of adding anything to it manually. If
the application doesn't have an import function, then the 'File Paths' is the
answer. Thanks for the assist.

JP.

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

This article explains two methods for exposing content:
http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/archive/2006/08/08/691363.aspx

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Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

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