smart behaviors in Visio diagrams stopped working?

[WG]

I need advice to figure out what settings were/are changed that stopped the
smart behaviors. Can anyone tell me what settings need to be set to enable
smart behaviors. Now when I start a new Cross Functional Diagram or a Gantt
chart I do not get any of the smart behaviors like dialoge boxes that ask for
Number of bands or setup of the charts as wells draw lines etc...also for
example when you add Number of days the Gantt would calculate the end date
and draw the Gant chart lines. None of this happesn anymore. I think some
one was messing with my computer....

I think it is a global setting of some kind. I think there are some
settings that have changed, but I do not know where to start to fix this
problem to get the smart behaviors back.

 

[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Probably Tools > Options > Advanced > Enable Automation Events. This must
be checked for many Visio drawing types to function properly.

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Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

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[WG]

I am using Visio 2003 and this option is not available under Tools > Options

Advanced > But I found it under Security and checked it to activate it.

This Fixed my Problem with New Items. However, Not on documents already
created. I have a 4 band CF flow and it does not expand (grow and shrionk
the Band and the boarders on the older doc but it works on the newer ones. I
will compare the Settings on them and see if I can figure it out. Thank You
so much for your help.

 

[John Goldsmith]

A good deal of the shapes and solutions in Visio rely on code being
triggered when a shape is first placed onto the page. Unfortunately this
means if the code "wasn't allowed to run" so to speak, the shapes won't have
received their special instructions and the cross-functional flowchart is an
example of this.

Having just done a quick test I see that you can delete the functional band
shapes and then re-place them and they appear to pick up the underlying
flowchart shapes.

Hope that helps

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith
www.visualSignals.co.uk