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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

What is a function?


A function defines a discrete action, and most functions take a number of arguments as input. Some functions produce an output as a value in the cell that contains the formula, whilst others redirect the output to another cell, and some do not produce a useful output at all.

The Developer ShapeSheet Reference in the Visio SDK contains a description of each of the 197 functions available in Visio 2010, and there are some more that are reserved for use by Visio itself.

Formulae can be entered into any cell, but some cells will be updated by the Visio engine or by specific add-ons, thus overwriting any formula that may be within the cell. Formulae are entered starting with the = (equals) sign, just as in Excel cells, so that Visio can understand that a formula is being entered rather than just a text. Some cells have been primed to expect text (strings) and will automatically prefix what you type with =" (equals double-quote) and close with"(double-quote) if you do not start...

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