Push data into Visio

[Chad]

I have purchased Visio Professional 2003.

We have a facilities management diagram that is sectioned
off and then broken down farther into individual rooms.
These rooms and sections are hyperlinked together and are
saved as web pages and then posted on our intranet. Each
room has several custom properties. We can export these
custom properties to a database, run queries and reports
to get any information that we may need that is already in
Visio.

Question: Can we push data in the other direction?
Specifically, we would like to build a web form where
managers could change information about rooms and be able
to send that information into Visio. Sending this
information into a database is not a problem but then
Visio and our database are out of sync.

Is there any way to alter information in a Visio file
outside of Visio? If so, can someone give me some
information on how to get started? Thanks!

Chad

 

[Andy [MS]]

If you save your Visio file in XML format, you can easily modify values
outside Visio. Just load the XML file, find the props that need to be
updated, make the changes, then re-save the file.