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Outputing Org Chart Relationship Data to Excel

I've got a series of Org Charts for our company. These Org Charts define Executive/Managers and reports to structures. I'm trying to create a VBA macro that will output the name of the employee, and the reports to executive to an excel spreadsheet. Since the org charts are seperate visio files, I'm going to use FSO to cycle through and open each file, and I know the excel object well enough to create the excel output. My weak point is not knowing the visio object well enough to get the relationship data. I've discovered how to cycle through each shape in a page, but I can't figure out how to determine what Master shape that the current shape is linked to? If I can ID the master/linked shape, I should be able to extrat the custom text that I need from the shape. Thanks in advance.

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Scott Helmers

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Calvin Brine

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Scott,
The code was what I was looking for. It allows me to define the from object and the to object. The only problem I'm running into now, is extracting the DAMN CUSTOM Proprety values from the shape objects. I'm using
MsgBox shpFrom.CellsSRC(visSectionProp, 2, 0)
which works fine when the custom properties are values, but returns 0 when they hold text? I've checked the options for the third parameter and I don't see any other possible constant that might hold text instead of values? Any ideas? I know I viewing the correct propterty because the .formula returns the label.

Thanks
Calvin

Calvin Brine

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OK, I did a little digging and figured out how to extract the string data on my own. So, I now have a set of code that will extract the From->To reporting relationships for all visio Org files within a specfic folder, and dump this data out to an excel workbook. It was an interesting exercise, and I'm posting the code here in case anyone else is interested in the future.

Cal

Sub GetFlowchartConnections()
' Gets text from shapes connected at each end of every line on page
' Stores text in two shape data fields on each line

    Dim pg As Visio.Page
    Dim shp As Visio.shape
    Dim cnxEndPoints As Visio.Connects
    Dim EP As Visio.Connect
    Dim shpFrom As Visio.shape
    Dim shpTo As Visio.shape
    Dim FSO As Object
    Dim f As Object
    Dim xlApp As Object
    Dim wb As Object
    Dim ws As Object
    Dim FilePath As String
    Dim vC As Visio.Cell
    
    On Error GoTo ErrHandler
    
    Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.application")
    xlApp.Visible = True
    
    Set wb = xlApp.workbooks.Add
    Set ws = xlApp.activesheet

    Set FSO = CreateObject("scripting.filesystemobject")

    'Get returned data folder.
    With xlApp.FileDialog(4)
        .AllowMultiSelect = False
        .ButtonName = "Select"
        .Title = "Select Processing Folder"
        .Show
        If .SelectedItems.Count = 0 Then
            MsgBox "Process Cancelled"
            End
        End If
        FilePath = .SelectedItems(1)
    End With


    For Each f In FSO.GetFolder(FilePath).Files
        If f.Type Like "*Visio*" Then
            Application.Documents.Open f.Path
    
            For Each pg In ActiveDocument.Pages
                For Each shp In pg.Shapes
                    'Call InitFromTo(shp)
                    
                    ' BeginX only exists if shape is a line
                    If shp.CellExists("BeginX", False) Then
                        'Get connects collection for current shape
                        Set cnxEndPoints = shp.Connects
                        
                        If cnxEndPoints.Count > 0 Then
                            For i = 1 To cnxEndPoints.Count
                                Set EP = cnxEndPoints(i)
                                If EP.FromPart = visBegin Then
                                    ' Get shape this end is attached to
                                    Set shpFrom = EP.ToSheet
                                    ' Store attached shape's text
                                    ws.Range("A65535").End(-4162).Offset(1, 0) = shpFrom.CellsU("Prop.Name").ResultStr(visNone)
    
                                Else
                                    ' Get shape this end is attached to
                                    Set shpTo = EP.ToSheet
                                    ' Store attached shape's text
                                    ws.Range("A655535").End(-4162).Offset(0, 1) = shpTo.CellsU("Prop.Name").ResultStr(visNone)
                                End If
                            Next i
                        End If
                    End If
                Next shp
            Next pg
            ActiveDocument.Close
        End If
    Next f
    Exit Sub
ErrHandler:
    wb.sheets.Add ws
    xlApp.activesheet.Range("A1") = Err.Number
    xlApp.activesheet.Range("A2") = Err.Description
    xlApp.activesheet.Range("A3") = EP.Name
    xlApp.activesheet.Range("A4") = EP.Name
    xlApp.activesheet.Range("A5") = f.Path
    
End Sub

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Calvin Brine

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Thanks Scott, couldn't have done it without your code sample.

Scott Helmers

I'm really glad you found the .ResultStr property... especially because I typed a reply to your question about extracting the text from the field... but looking above it's clear that I never clicked Submit!! I have no idea what happened as I would have been happy to save you the work of ferreting out that property.

BTW, in the post I never posted, I also suggested that you download the Visio 2007 SDK if you haven't already. It's invaluable: decent documentation and very helpful code samples.

Thanks for posting the code you created that worked. I appreciate it when people do that as it's very helpful for others.

Scott

Scott Helmers

I realize you now have the code to solve your problem but something just occurred to me -- Visio will create an Excel workbook that includes "reports to" info without you needing to do anything. Just select Export from the Org Chart menu...

This approach doesn't accomplish cycling through a folder full of org charts but it's simple and fast. And on the flip side, when you run the Import wizard, you can tell the wizard to store any data in the spreadsheet in the org charts shapes. Consequently, your rebuilt org chart shapes can have "reports to" as shape data in every shape.

Just a thought after the fact...

Calvin Brine

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Ah...I checked the reports menu and couldn't find anything to output the actual reports to relationships. Ah well, I learned a few things about visio, and I had about 60 different documents to do manually anyway.(Don't ask me why they are not all stored in seperate pages of the same document, I didn't design them :-) )

I will check out this option just to see what it gives me for the future.

Thanks