Overlapping Categories

[eman6]

I have a flowchart of a process.
Each part of the process includes various components.
Some components are common between parts.
What do I want to achieve in the end?
To have a menu or drop down list from which I can select which part of the flow I want to display and hide the rest.
Or even by buttons. A button for each part.

To begin with, I tried to create overlapping layers, but that did not work when I click view_Layer Properties and check this or that part as visible or not, so I did not even try programmatically.
Another idea is to assign custom properties.
But then the question is how to code a drop down list or a group of buttons to display parts separately?
I am new to VISIO VBA.
A recommendation on a web site or a book would also be helpful, although I am kind of in a hurry to get a work done.
Thank you in advance.



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Eman6
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[eman6]

OK, the overlapping layers worked finally.
Was my mistake and now I fixed it.

Remains to know how to VBA so as to be able to selectively display separate layers.

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Eman6
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[johnwm]

Try Tools|Macros|Record new macro. Do your stuff, stop recording then into VBA editor (ALT F11) and have a look at the generated code.

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[eman6]

Thank you for the tip.
I tried that (I have VISIO 2003 at home), but I am doing this for work, using VISIO 2002 :-(
What I recorded by VISIO 2003 did not work with 2002 :-(



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