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Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680141
Pages 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
David Parker David Parker
Profile icon David Parker

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Overview of Process Management in Microsoft Visio 2010 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

Connectivity API


All of the above sections were to get you used to the object model a bit, so that you can understand how to traverse a structured diagram and retrieve the information that you want. The Connectivity API also provides easy methods for creating and deleting connections, but we are simply interested in traversing connections in order to check or export the process steps to another application.

Here is the top part of my Write Chapter Sub-process page which demonstrates some of the key features of the Connectivity API. They are done in the following sequence:

  1. 1. The flow shapes are connected together creating a logical sequence of steps.

  2. 2. Some steps have an associated callout with extra Notes.

  3. 3. Some steps are within a Container shape to define the Phase.

Now we will traverse the diagram in code, and list out the steps in their phases with any associated notes, but first we need to understand a few of the new methods in the Connectivity API.

The Shape.ConnectedShapes method...

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