Need assistance creating Visio drawings.  I've never done any and don't know where to start.  Tutorials would be great, if any.

Hi,

I am in the process of creating a visual IT process diagram using images. However, I am unable to find the type of images I need. I am building the diagram in Visio and can import the images if I had them or knew where to get them. I have attached a file with the type(s) of images I am seeking.

Many thanks in advance.

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James
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Hi everyone,
First, thank you to all who offer up suggestions and advice to fellow I.T professionals. We all have different areas of expertise and experience so it is great to have a go-to area to seek answers & explanations, and also to hopefully help our peers.

I have a Visio 2010 Std application created on my SCCM 2012 server. I have been tasked with changing the product key it uses to activate on initial install. I don't want to change current installations, just use this new key for any new deployments.

I have it configured to use an MSP file with all of my customizations applied, including product key. What is the most appropriate way to go about changing the key to a different one? I have attempted simply editing the MSP to include the new key, but the application seems to still install using the old one. Do I make a new application and call it a day? Or should I be able to update my key without any issues?

Thanks so much in advance.

Here is Visio 2013. when drawing a line on its page, the line can be long 10 cm. but sometimes the line cannot be increased a little or decreased a little bit. for example the line 10 cm cannot be 9.8 or 10.2. I think this is resolution issue. How can we change or increase the resolution? Thank you

Hi
Experts!

I’m trying to download Visio Studio 2012 for desktop, but I’m failing on this link http://microsoft.com/visualstudio/downloads. Is there anyone with unbroken links, kindly share with me, I understand it’s free.

The purpose of the above is to create a window form that will be used to insert data into an MS access database, C# is able to do this properly, by using an insert SQL.

Regards

Chris

Greetings Experts,

The background of what I'm trying to do is, I am a Technical Author who has just started a new job and I have inherited some files from the previous author. I'm using Visio. He used a lot of screen shots with labels that point to various parts of the user interface when a particular step in a task is made. There are currently two separate lines, one in red and one in white, the white is used to show up when the line goes over the user interface which is a dark gray, the theory being I guess that if it were black it would get lost visually against the user interface. He has labels that go with these lines that are labelled step 1, 2, 3 etc.

Currently the two lines are sperate, which means a lot of fiddling about when I have to move them. I'd like them to be grouped together, preferably with a drop shadow that would look nicer. Also I'd like a way to snap the 1,2,3 lables to a grid so that they all line up and look neat - I'm currently having to do this by eye.

It's just all taking a lot of time fiddling about and I'm thinking there's got to be a better way that looks better visually too. I can send a screen shot but not sure how to do it on here, it wouldn't let me when I posted the question.

I'm hoping I've described this well, if not please let me know if you need further clarification. I think if I sent you a screen shot it would help convey what I mean better.

Thanks,

Clare

I know very little about vba. But am trying to tweak a macro for visio.

I want to tweak text but can't find anything on this:
 
            ' set font size and color, text alignment, border, fill and shadow
            .Cells("Char.Size").Formula = "10 pt"
            .Cells("Char.Color").Formula = 0     ' black
            .Cells("Para.HorzAlign") = 0         ' left justify
            .Cells("LinePattern").Formula = 0    ' none
            .Cells("FillPattern").Formula = 0    ' none
            .Cells("ShdwPattern").Formula = 0    ' none

1) Is there a table  that lists what numbers to use to change HorizAlign to get centered?

2) What if I wanted to bold the text?

3) there's a line after these for text (it's a table of contents):   .Text = arrPages(i, 1) & vbTab & CInt(arrPages(i, 2))

I'd love for the space between the page name and page number to be dotted  like:   Licenses.. . . . . . . .3

Do you know how I could get that?

Any idea why I can't find much about this on the web? I was googling cells syntax vba and pasting these lines into google. Didn't come up with anything.

Thanks!

When I knew very little about visio, in making network docs, I would jam way too much on 1 drawing, thinking I had to make an entire different file with a 2nd page.  DUH!

So I know a little more and love the seperate pages and being able to have a common background on all of them, etc.

Now, is there a way to make a table of contents page? A first page that lists the name of each page in the file?  Maybe updates automatically?  When you add another page / rearrange the order of pages, this page auto updates?

Hi I have to do system architecture diagrams for environment

Its very documentation heavy, have to cover VMware, Active Directory, 2008R2 forest mode and on premise Exchange 2010

Is there any guidelines people would recommend i realise its a general query

For instance are there free tools that provide mapping which i can use with visio

I have seen the free stencils Veeam provide and they look good

I am looking to do high level overview then go a bit deeper and also include support documentation which will be a lot more straightforward

Any pointers appreciated

Recently upgraded to Visio 2013 where there are now photo placeholders when using the org chart wizard. This was not the case with Visio 2010. How do I get rid of the placeholders which I don't have room for with a 475+ assoc org chart. I want the simple no frills/text only version and I would like to alphabetize the document. Any tips for quickly learning the new version would also be helpful.

I'm using Visio 2013 to do a floorplan.  But the default interior wall thickness is 4".  I need it to be either 3-1/2" or 4-1/2".  

How do I change the wall thickness?

Hi There is a picture in Visio2013. Is it possible for us to change the picture into transparent one? It means removing any background color etc and characters of the picture are left? Thank you

Hey guys, Im on a new project in my company and I need to make some things in Visio 2016.

I want to write a vba code that create a property in shape data and then fill it with the container's shape name. Is there possible?

Ive already wrote a code that creat a property "Setor" in all shapes on the page, but I need to fill this property with the name of a container the shapes are into.

The code that Im using is this:

Private Sub Setorizacao()

Dim visShape As Visio.shape
Dim visPage  As Visio.Page



Set visPage = ActivePage

For Each visShape In ActivePage.Shapes
   
   If visShape.CellExists("LockWidth", False) Then
   
   Call InitSetor(visShape)
   
   End If
   
   Next
   
   
           
End Sub

Sub InitSetor(ByRef shape As Visio.shape)

' Create Prop.Setor if they don't exist; set both fields to null

    If Not shape.CellExistsU("Prop.Setor", False) Then
        shape.AddNamedRow visSectionProp, "Setor", visTagDefault
    End If
    shape.CellsU("Prop.Setor").FormulaU = ""
    shape.CellsU("Prop.Setor.Label").FormulaU = Chr(34) & "Setor" & Chr(34)
   
   
End Sub



Thank you in advance.