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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

Importing rulesets from XML

This method first requests the user to select the XML file (this can be in the standard Visio XML file format too) which contains the ruleset or rulesets to import from. It then iterates through the ruleset and rule elements to add them to the selected VEDocument.

If it encounters a ruleset with the same name as an existing ruleset in the selected VEDocument, then the user is prompted to overwrite or not.

Imported rulesets are immediately added to the Rules Explorer tree view.

    public void ImportRuleSets()
    {
      try
      {
        string title = "RuleSets";
        string fileName = "";
        Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog dlg = 
          new Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog();
        dlg.Title = "Import " + title;
        dlg.InitialDirectory = 
          System.Environment.GetFolderPath(
            System.Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments);
        dlg.DefaultExt = ".xml";
        dlg.Filter = 
       ...
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