Visio Automation To Lookup Shapes

[John Shiangoli]

Hi All,
Please may I have your advice on the following?
I'm putting together a script to create a Visio Drawing Automatically based
on a discovered network topology. From my network topology data I know what
is connected and the type of nodes that are connected for example servers,
laptops, workstations, switches, routers etc.
Without prior knowledge of the visio stencils and their shapes i need to be
able to locate the best visio shape for a given node type. Acheiving a close
match between the visio shape name and the node type.
Programatically you 1st need to open the stencil (OpenEx) before you can
retrieve the shape (get_itemU). Hence the challenge here is is which stencil
do i use?
To acheive this I thought that the best way would be to create a database
table that has column `visio stencil` and `visio shape`. However how do i
populate such a table from a visio installation?

Any advice on the best way to acheive this would be greatly appreciated

Regards
John

 

[AlEdlund]

John,
Would you mind posting this over on Chris Roth's site (www.visguy.com, the
network drawing section). I'll respond to it over there.
Al

 

[John Shiangoli]

Hi Al,

Ive posted the question in the programming and code section.
http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=1260.0

The network diagram is just an example, the challenge is to associate text
from a data source to a visio shape as well as knowing which visio stencil
this shape belongs to

 

[AlEdlund]

John,
The shape association is straight forward (assuming you're at v2007 Pro).
There are examples on the the MS Office site for Visio data drawings.
al