Data Link: getting data into your shapes

re: Data Link: getting data into your shapes

dkw614 — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:20:12 GMT

Can you send me the link to previous articles on this subject? E-mail: wolfetechnologies@yahoo.com
Thank you!

Visio 2007 Beta 2 Publicly Available

Bill Morein's Weblog — Wed, 24 May 2006 07:02:08 GMT

Along with the rest of the 2007 Office system, Visio 2007 Beta 2 is now available for public download...

re: Data Link: getting data into your shapes

Tom Phillips — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:49:59 GMT

As an engineer who has used visio to create complex schematics and diagrams, I was wondering if the new Visio 2007 would have a Data link that would be in real-time so that the shapes color or Icons like "stoplight" or "flag" or what ever could actually turn color as new data streams in. We do a lot of equipment monitoring of transmitter meters that are digitally available over modems. Our IT department would also like to monitor when a computer had a problem. Visio 2007 seems to have a way to link the data but is it real-time? Can you make it link to receive constantly changing data and thus change the color of the Object like the ones you use here? We could design our own UI this way. That would be great. Any thoughts on this?

Tom

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re: Data Link: getting data into your shapes

John — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:36:40 GMT

If I use data graphics to display data from rows in a database, can I edit the data in the graphic, and save it back to the database, or is this a 1-way feature?

Thanks,

John

re: Data Link: getting data into your shapes

Dario de Judicibus — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:22:22 GMT

Ok, but I can do something similar in Visio 2003 by VBA? For example, I have a simple Excel sheet with the following fields:

Type;Name;Description;

I would like to associate each type to a shape in a specific stencil, use name for the object on page, and description as text iside the shape. It should be simple, but I cannot finda way to do it!