Understanding a Visio Process Repository
A Visio Process Repository is an enhanced document library that has some default settings applied and automatically updates the validation status and swimlane headers (if any) into specific columns in the SharePoint list. This provides the ability to quickly view, for example, which processes involve a particular department, or which ones are not yet validated and approved.
The versioning settings, which are an optional setting for all SharePoint document libraries, are preset for the Visio Process Repository, in order to require content approval for submitted items and to require documents to be checked out before they can be edited.
Tip
You will need to allow documents to be edited without checking out if you want SharePoint users to be able to edit comments using the SharePoint Visio Web Access control.
The following cross-functional flowchart in the Visio Process Repository.vstx document describes the different statuses that a validated diagram can...
