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Microsoft Visio 2013 Business Process Diagramming and Validation

You're reading from   Microsoft Visio 2013 Business Process Diagramming and Validation Using Microsoft Visio to visualize business information is a huge aid to comprehension and clarity. Learn how with this practical guide to process diagramming and validation, written as a practical tutorial with sample code and demos.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782178002
Length 416 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Overview of Process Management in Microsoft Visio 2013 FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding the Microsoft Visio Object Model 3. Understanding the ShapeSheet™ 4. Understanding the Validation API 5. Developing a Validation API Interface 6. Reviewing Validation Rules and Issues 7. Creating Validation Rules 8. Publishing Validation Rules and Diagrams 9. A Worked Example for Data Flow Model Diagrams – Part 1 10. A Worked Example for Data Flow Model Diagrams – Part 2 11. A Worked Example for Data Flow Model Diagrams – Part 3 12. Integrating Validated Diagrams with SharePoint 2013 and Office365 Index

Chapter 9. A Worked Example for Data Flow Model Diagrams – Part 1

In the preceding chapters, we have learned about the Visio object model, the new Validation API, how to write validation rules, and how to publish these rules for others to use.

In this chapter, we are going to present a complete cycle for writing validation rules for the Data Flow Model Diagram methodology. I chose this template because there used to be an add-on associated with it in Visio; this add-on is unfortunately no longer provided, and there are no rules for it either.

Since we are going to produce a new template, we can then take the opportunity to enhance the master shapes too. This will provide some extra functionality, such as identifiers for each process, which could be used to detail the diagrams, and to make them suitable for export into other applications. I know that some of these enhancements are usually done by a ShapeSheet developer rather than a rules developer, but I have included fairly...

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