Vision Help - Shape holding other shapes?

[MokMike]

Hello,

I am just starting out on using Visio, and wondered if the following is possible:

I want a "shape" to represent a business object, called an ACTION. It would have a few custom properties:
ActionId - a whole number
ActionText - string
Property1 - Boolean
GenericProperty2 - Boolean
TransGrpId - Whole number

Then, I want another "shape" to represent a different business object, a STEP, with the following custom properties:
StepId - whole number
StepText - string
DecisionStep - boolean
DecisionId - Whole number
Then, N number of actions, it could have none, it could have 20. Is there a way to embed this other business shape, or a collection of them, into this step shape?

 

[NGordian]

Hi MokMike,

You should check out SpatialRelation.
This let's you determine if for example a shape is contained within another shape.

In your case I guess you're interested in something like this to determine if a action shape is contained in a step shape.

If actionShape.SpatialRelation(stepShape, 0.01, Nothing) = Visio.VisSpatialRelationCodes.visSpatialContainedIn

 

[VisioMVP]

Shapes can be grouped and you can set some shapes to automatically added to a group when they are dropped.

John... Visio MVP - Visio.MVPs.org