Org Chart pulling names even though I'm using ID field

[Tech Geek 1234]

I am using Visio 2002 SR-1. I am trying to use the Org Chart Wizard to
create a chart from an Excel file. Problem is I'm getting "duplicate"
errors. I do have people in the list more than once, however I thought I
fixed it by using a number field for the Name field. Essentially, an
"Employee ID" field that's unique to every record. So John Smith would have
3 different ID's. In the Visio Help files, it mentions using an Employee ID
field if you have employees with the same name (such as 2 John Smith's). But
somehow it's still pulling the name and using that to determine what's
unique, so it says "fix John Smith".

My ultimate goal is to visually display 170+ people and the groups they are
in. Some people are in multiple groups. I was hoping the Org Chart would do
this for me?? If not, is there any other tool you know of that might work?

Thanks!

 

[David Parker]

You don't say if you are running the Org Chart from the command line or
interactively.
The article at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/HP010384221033.aspx
describes the different command line switches, which includes the ability to
specify the Unique-ID field.

Note: In my browser, at least, there is a lot of white space in this
article, which actually contains invisible useful text. I copied the
article text to Notepad to read this.

 

[Tech Geek 1234]

I am running it from within Visio - which i guess would mean interactively.
At first glance it looks like the command method would give me the
flexibility I'm looking for to visually depict people in specific groups.

However, I am unfamiliar with how to use the "command line". I have some
programming background and am familiar with VB, macros, and the MS Dos
command prompt. But I don't know how or where to begin in using the commands
in the article. Is there a tutorial or article I can reference to try this
out?

Thanks!