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Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016

You're reading from   Mastering Data Visualization with Microsoft Visio Professional 2016 Master the art of presenting information visually using Microsoft Visio Professional 2016 and Visio Pro for Office365

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882661
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John Marshall John Marshall
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Preface 1. Data within Visio Essentials FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding How Data Is Stored within Visio 3. Linking Data to Shapes 4. Using the Built-In Data Graphics 5. Using the Pivot Diagram Add-On 6. Creating Custom Master Shapes 7. Creating Custom Data Graphics 8. Validating and Extracting Information 9. Automating Structured Diagrams 10. Sharing Data Diagrams 11. Choosing a Deployment Methodology Index

Adding data-linked shapes to lists


Lists are a special type of container. Each item in a list is ordered from left to right, right to left, top to bottom, or bottom to top. These are the settings that can be applied to the list. In the following screenshot, the Sales container has been changed to a list ordering from left to right:

The code is almost identical for DropShapesInContainer(), except that the rows that move the Person shapes into the center of the container are replaced with the action to insert them into a list.

This results in the Person shapes being neatly aligned within the list container, as shown in the following screenshot. There is no need to lay out the shapes, of course.

In reality, the Person shapes will be ordered according to some rule, rather than just looping through DataRecordset.

Note

For more uses of lists in Visio diagrams, see http://blog.bvisual.net/2014/12/31/get-scrabbled-with-visio/.

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