Creating Visio for Desktop and Excel process diagram templates for others
We have been using the instance of master shapes from the Basic Flowchart Shapes stencil in this chapter. We have seen, for a given shape, that in addition to pre-defined shape data fields, additional shape data fields with values as specified in our source data table are appended to Shape Data when the diagram has been created using Data Visualizer. The pre-defined Shape Data fields on each of these shapes will have no data placed in them apart from the Function row. These pre-defined fields are explained here:
The default Shape Data rows (or fields) are as follows:
- Cost: This must be numeric and is displayed as currency
- Process Number: This must be numeric
- Function: This is inherited from the text of the swimlane that it is contained in
- Start Date: This must be a date
- End Date: This must be a date
- Status: This can be selected from a default drop-down list or any other text value...
