Visio 2003 Custom Properties

[Just Merks]

Hello,

I have the following what I want to accomplish.

Assume I have created a server cabinet drawing. The elements have been
grouped to a single shape and several Customer properties have been created
for this shape. I.e. "cabinet name", "Floor location" etc.

Then I created a server drawing and same customer properties have been
defined for this server. Whenever I drag the server inside the boudaries of
this cabinet can I automatically take over the properties from the cabinet?

For a simple explanation it could be considered to a square inside a square
taking the proerties from the surounding square.

Who is so smart to tell me how this can be done?

regards,

Just

 

[Al Edlund]

You get to write code to do that, since it isn't a standard visio function.
A common way (within the code) is to have the 'server shape' be a 1D-type
and then when it connects to the 'rack' you can get the connection
information out of the shape sheet. Then it becomes just reading the shape
data from the attached rack shape.
al