Visio Viewer and Internet Explorer

[Shivonne]

Hi,

I'm currently working on a project to allow users who don't have Visio
installed to view Visio diagrams embedded a web page (IE6). A key requirement
for this project is to allow the users to access any hyperlinks that are in
the original Visio diagram.

I've played around with the Visio Viewer and embedding that in a web page,
but it seems to offer a very disjointed user experience (displaying the
toolbar at the bottom of the object, allowing the user to move the document
around etc.). I'd ideally like to display the Visio diagram seamlessly within
the web page, like an image. There would be other content around the Visio
diagram e.g. text.

I've looked at other options e.g. saving the Visio diagram as an image but
that doesn't persist the hyperlinks.

Can anyone offer any advice around this?

Thanks as always

Shivonne

 

[David Parker]

The Visio Viewer API allows you to modify the toolbars, and to get access to
multiple hyperlinks on each shape. The UI does not give you this
flexibility, but you could script the web page to list all of the hyperlinks
on any selected shape in the Visio Viewer.