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Finally got telnet to work from a shape. Very simple in the end. In the shape sheet, insert an Actions section. Create an action and in the Action area put the following code, where &Prop.Loopback is the Custom property that contains the IP address or Hostname of the device...

I figured it out through trial and error and finding information on various websites. Try these steps, I'm using Visio 2003: In Visio: 1. Create a Shape. 2. Add to the shape Custom Properties [Hostname, IP Address, City] 3. Edit the custom properties through the shapesheet...

Hmm. What I did is I have a WAN inventory sheet in excel, that amongst other things includes ip address, location, etc. I then created a custom shape in Visio and then imported all the information from Excel to Visio. This way, I don't have to maintain an inventory of connections in SecureCRT...

Check out SecureCRT from Vandyke. I have been playing with John's code and can have it open either telnet or ssh, by switching the http in the above example to either telnet:// or ssh:// (SSH:// requires a reg hack though, but is not very difficult.) My only problem is just getting the custom...

How would you pull a custom property to be the destination address? For instance, my shape has a custom proptery of prop.loopback. When I double click on a particular object, it would telnet me to that loopback address and so on and so forth with other objects.