Push data into Visio

[cldh00]

We have a facilities management diagram that is sectioned off and then broken down farther into individual rooms. These rooms and sections are hyperlinked together and are saved as web pages and then posted on our intranet. Each room has several custom properties. We can export these custom properties to a database, run queries and reports to get any information that we may need that is already in Visio.

Question: Can we push data in the other direction? Specifically, we would like to build a web form where managers could change information about rooms and be able to send that information into Visio. Sending this information into a database is not a problem but then Visio and our database are out of sync.

Is there any way to alter information in a Visio file outside of Visio? If so, can someone give me some information on how to get started? Thanks!

Chad

 

[VisioMVP]

You can write a program that interrogates the database and updates the Visio drawing.

John... Visio MVP

 

[mclellan]

Any hints on where you can find some programming examples?



Thanks
Barry

 

[VisioMVP]

DVS (Developing Visio Solutions) covers how to program Visio. It was available with older versions of Visio as a book and as an Acrobat file (DVS.PDF). It is now avialable as a Microsoft Press book or online through MSDN.

John... Visio MVP