Manage Shapes by Groups or Layers?

[sbmack7]

Best Practices question:

For VBA Shape Management by some classification, is it easier/better
to classify by Group or by Layer?

Comments?

Thanks,

SteveM

 

[JuneTheSecond]

The answer might differ by the meaning of management.
One of the best answer may be stencils.
Stencil is Visio and vice versa.

 

[sbmack7]

The answer might differ by the meaning of management.
One of the best answer may be stencils.
Stencil is Visio and vice versa.

Thanks J2, but you lost me.

Say I have some plants that manufacture products. So I have plant
shapes and product shapes on the page and connector shapes between
them. Connectors are to be visible if the plant-product allocation >
0.

If I want to cycle through the plants products and connectors by shape
class, is it better to aggregate them into Groups or assign them to
Layers or both, contingent upon the operation?

SteveM

 

[Paul Herber]

Best Practices question:

For VBA Shape Management by some classification, is it easier/better
to classify by Group or by Layer?

Layer. Or tag the shapes in the Data, User_defined data etc.

 

[sbmack7]

Layer. Or tag the shapes in the Data, User_defined data etc.

Paul,

Thanks for the input. The user defined data suggestion is not
something that I thought about it. It's a very interesting adjunct to
what I was thinking. The data is coming from an external data
source. So I can augment the data records with auxiliary tag fields
to help manage shape behavior based on tag values. And that info gets
read in with the data record.

Yeah, that's good...

SteveM