A brief detour from data: AutoConnect

re: A brief detour from data: AutoConnect

Warren Steger — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:16:03 GMT

This looks to be a great time saver. Another paradigm I've seen on other tools is the use of what I would call a "click-key" approach. In this method, you click on a shape in the diagram and press a key and it creates another shape (of the same type) and connects the shapes together. Kind of like a combo copy/paste/connect action with one click and one keystroke.

Keep up the great work!

AutoConnect and Custom Shapes?

Dan — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:15:12 GMT

Eric,
What a cool feature. I'd love to see more posts about the future of Visio, especially other features you might be adding or changing. The AutoConnect will be very useful. When I've trained people on how to use Visio for these simple diagrams, they get frustrated at the needless extra steps. One question: will I be able to add the AutoConnect feature to custom shapes? Will it work with both kinds of glue?

Thanks for opening up your development process!
-- Dan

re: AutoConnect and Custom Shapes?

Eric Rockey — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:55:01 GMT

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the question. Yes, AutoConnect works with any shape, including custom shapes. Visio will use whatever is selected in the shapes window to create a new shape.

It does, however, only use dynamic glue. This is the most flexible type of connection in Visio and allows for better results when people start moving shapes around.

--Eric

re: A brief detour from data: AutoConnect

Les Enstone — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:20:01 GMT

Eric,
Great Feature : Can I ask more about the "glue"?
We use our own connectors in BPMN diagrams because we have data associated to the connector shape.

Is it possible for the user , or better still the stencil, to nominate a connector to be used by the AutoConnect Process ?
With such a feature our solution will be orders of magnitude stonger. Without it we will have some re-work / re-design to do, if we are to avoid our Visio 12 solution lagging behind.

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