Learning to Manually Create Process Flow Diagrams
We learned how to create a Visio diagram in Chapter 1, using each of the available Visio edition applications. In this chapter, we will learn how to efficiently and manually create flowchart diagrams. These skills will give us the confidence to quickly and efficiently work with many types of diagrams. This chapter will provide us with an understanding of adding more shapes and connecting shapes together, and labeling them. We will also learn about special container shapes, such as swimlanes, and how we can link flowcharts across multiple pages. The following are the specific topics that will be covered in this chapter:
- Setting the page size and orientation
- Adding basic flowchart shapes
- Relating shapes to each other
- Labeling shapes and relationships
- Adding more detailed information to shapes
- Creating sub-processes
- Validating the structure of these diagrams
