User Interface Documentation

[Dave]

As part of my Business Analysis work I create screenshots in Visio Pro (2007)
firstly for discussions with stakeholders, and once relatively stable for the
creation of functional requirement specs.

As part of that, I document what each data item & widget does and how it
does it. E.g. A button OK might validate data entry, save data & close
screen. At the moment, the labels in the visio screenshots and the
documentation are not linked, not is any descriptive data.

I'm looking for a specific solution that allows me to create screens &
documentation visio driven. So for example, I add the OK button in visio,
give it some descriptive data and can then output that data into a table in a
Word or Excel document.

I looked at the linking data option, but that seems to flow the other way
around with associated consequences.

Can anyone help or at least point me in the right direction?

 

[AlEdlund]

As a thought (probably a lot of others can also add to this).
Consider keeping the Word doc open while working through your documentation
process, you can add a bookmark to the Word file and then create a hyperlink
from the shape to the bookmark. For screen captures I use the 'snipping
tool', for video walkthroughs (with audio) I use the HyperCam2 product
(http://www.hyperionics.com/hc/).
HTH,
al

 

[Dave]

Thanks for the tips Al. It's not quite what I'm after though. Perhaps I'm
asking a bit too much from Visio and should look towards software
specifically intended for GUI development. It's just that I like working with
Visio!! ;-)