Showing Last Saved by or Last Edited by information

[MobDevUX]

I know this is an easy question, but I simply can't seem to find a
solution anywhere on the web (well, after half a day of searching).

I would like to show in my VISIO 2003 wireframes the name of the
person who last saved the document, e.g. Last Saved by. I imagine this
would use the User Information "user name" details under Options,
however, I'm unsure how to access this information.

Your help/suggestions would be VERY MUCH appreciated.

Cheers,
Rod

 

[Philippe C.]

Double click on a shape, which gives you normally the text edit box.
Menu, Insert, Field, Document Info, Creator, OK.

On the other hand, "Last Saved by" is probably impossible.
In File Explorer, Right click, Properties, I don't find a "Last saved by".
This would be a question for the Operating System forum.

 

[Al Edlund]

For the user information you'll have to write some custom code, because
Visio doesn't keep track of it. When I have one of these types of coding
challenges I like to go to Randy Birch's site (vbnet.mvps.org) to see if he
has an example.
In this case he has NetWkstaGetInfo, which can find the logged on user data.
Randy's examples are in visual basic which often can be recoded as VBA.
As Phillipe mentioned, you can probably use the 'insert field' menu option
to add a current date to the document.
al

 

[MobDevUX]

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

I can insert Creator, but that doesn't necessary reflect the last
person who opened the file and saved as change. I have the timestamp
in there already, which is useful to see if any undocumented changes
have occured, but the offenders name would be nice too

Thanks for the Randy Birch reference - will look into it!

Cheers