Uniquely identify a shape

[dani]

Hi there,

is there a way to uniquely identify a shape on a multi-page document?

as I have seen, the ID property will not work because there can be
shapes with same IDs on different pages...

thanks for help

Daniel

 

[Al Edlund]

Daniel,
I put this in my shape added routine to force a guid to the shape

strShapeUniqueID = visShape.UniqueID(visGetOrMakeGUID)

for a page add I use this

strPageUniqueID = objPage.PageSheet.UniqueID(visGetOrMakeGUID)

These allow me to have unique keys for when I want to save/restore from a
database, and yet protect me from users that want to change names, etc.

Al