Displaying Data on MouseOver

I got a flow chart that I'd like to have some data show up when a user mouses
over a shape after I export it to Web. I figured out how to link objects and
have them show up. I'm using Visio 2007 Std. I just watched a video using
Display Data on Shapes but that was using Pro not Std. Let me know if this a
short coming of Std.

TIA

There is a function called 'tooltip' that works with a standard drawing.
Mark Nelson put this out to illustrate how you might do it on the web.
al

I know many people have asked this question, and it has been partially
answered previously. Here is a more complete explanation.

Summary:
You can add the User.visEquivTitle cell to your shape and provide a string
that will display as a tooltip in the web output. The shape must also have
at least one custom property for the tooltip to be visible.

Steps:
1) Select the shape in your drawing that you want to add a web tooltip for
2) Go to Window Show Shapesheet
3) Go to Insert Section, check User-defined cells and click OK
4) In the newly created section, click on the row name User.Row_1 to select
the title of the row
5) Type visEquivTitle and press Enter - you should now see
User.visEquivTitle for the row
6) In the Value cell of that row, enter the text you want to display
surrounded by quotes (e.g. "Hello World")
7) If you instead want to display the same tooltip as the Shape ScreenTip
enter =Comment (no quotes)
8) Go to Insert Section, check Custom properties and click OK
9) You can fill in the custom property Label and Value if you want this
information to be visible
10) If you don't want the custom property to be visible, enter TRUE in the
Invisible cell
11) Close the Shapesheet window and repeat for any other shape you like
12) Choose File Save as Web Page to create the HTML output

As you can see this is a bit involved. The capability was designed more as
a developer feature than an end user feature. I recommend tying the Shape
ScreenTip to the User cell so that you see the same tooltip in both Visio
and the web output. It should also be possible to use Macro Recorder to
automate these steps. If your shape has a custom property but does not have
the User.visEquivTitle cell, Visio will display the shape's text in a
tooltip instead.

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.



"MTechG" wrote in message
...
I got a flow chart that I'd like to have some data show up when a user
mouses
over a shape after I export it to Web. I figured out how to link objects
and
have them show up. I'm using Visio 2007 Std. I just watched a video
using
Display Data on Shapes but that was using Pro not Std. Let me know if
this a
short coming of Std.

TIA

Al I'll give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.



"Al Edlund" wrote:

There is a function called 'tooltip' that works with a standard drawing.
Mark Nelson put this out to illustrate how you might do it on the web.
al

I know many people have asked this question, and it has been partially
answered previously. Here is a more complete explanation.

Summary:
You can add the User.visEquivTitle cell to your shape and provide a string
that will display as a tooltip in the web output. The shape must also have
at least one custom property for the tooltip to be visible.

Steps:
1) Select the shape in your drawing that you want to add a web tooltip for
2) Go to Window Show Shapesheet
3) Go to Insert Section, check User-defined cells and click OK
4) In the newly created section, click on the row name User.Row_1 to select
the title of the row
5) Type visEquivTitle and press Enter - you should now see
User.visEquivTitle for the row
6) In the Value cell of that row, enter the text you want to display
surrounded by quotes (e.g. "Hello World")
7) If you instead want to display the same tooltip as the Shape ScreenTip
enter =Comment (no quotes)
8) Go to Insert Section, check Custom properties and click OK
9) You can fill in the custom property Label and Value if you want this
information to be visible
10) If you don't want the custom property to be visible, enter TRUE in the
Invisible cell
11) Close the Shapesheet window and repeat for any other shape you like
12) Choose File Save as Web Page to create the HTML output

As you can see this is a bit involved. The capability was designed more as
a developer feature than an end user feature. I recommend tying the Shape
ScreenTip to the User cell so that you see the same tooltip in both Visio
and the web output. It should also be possible to use Macro Recorder to
automate these steps. If your shape has a custom property but does not have
the User.visEquivTitle cell, Visio will display the shape's text in a
tooltip instead.

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.



"MTechG" wrote in message
...
I got a flow chart that I'd like to have some data show up when a user
mouses
over a shape after I export it to Web. I figured out how to link objects
and
have them show up. I'm using Visio 2007 Std. I just watched a video
using
Display Data on Shapes but that was using Pro not Std. Let me know if
this a
short coming of Std.

TIA

your explanation assumes that when you try to insert a section into the shapesheet that a user defined option is available. On my insert section it ends with Smart Tags. I don't have the ability to click on user defined. If I try to insert a section into User-defined cells, again the last tag is smart tags. I don't know where to add the visEquivTitle. Please help. This is for vision 2007



MTech wrote:

Al I'll give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.
01-Apr-08

Al I will give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.



"Al Edlund" wrote:

Previous Posts In This Thread:

On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:26 PM
MTech wrote:

Displaying Data on MouseOver
I got a flow chart that I'd like to have some data show up when a user mouses
over a shape after I export it to Web. I figured out how to link objects and
have them show up. I'm using Visio 2007 Std. I just watched a video using
Display Data on Shapes but that was using Pro not Std. Let me know if this a
short coming of Std.

TIA

On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:47 PM
Al Edlund wrote:

There is a function called 'tooltip' that works with a standard drawing.
There is a function called 'tooltip' that works with a standard drawing.
Mark Nelson put this out to illustrate how you might do it on the web.
al

I know many people have asked this question, and it has been partially
answered previously. Here is a more complete explanation.

Summary:
You can add the User.visEquivTitle cell to your shape and provide a string
that will display as a tooltip in the web output. The shape must also have
at least one custom property for the tooltip to be visible.

Steps:
1) Select the shape in your drawing that you want to add a web tooltip for
2) Go to Window Show Shapesheet
3) Go to Insert Section, check User-defined cells and click OK
4) In the newly created section, click on the row name User.Row_1 to select
the title of the row
5) Type visEquivTitle and press Enter - you should now see
User.visEquivTitle for the row
6) In the Value cell of that row, enter the text you want to display
surrounded by quotes (e.g. "Hello World")
7) If you instead want to display the same tooltip as the Shape ScreenTip
enter =Comment (no quotes)
8) Go to Insert Section, check Custom properties and click OK
9) You can fill in the custom property Label and Value if you want this
information to be visible
10) If you don't want the custom property to be visible, enter TRUE in the
Invisible cell
11) Close the Shapesheet window and repeat for any other shape you like
12) Choose File Save as Web Page to create the HTML output

As you can see this is a bit involved. The capability was designed more as
a developer feature than an end user feature. I recommend tying the Shape
ScreenTip to the User cell so that you see the same tooltip in both Visio
and the web output. It should also be possible to use Macro Recorder to
automate these steps. If your shape has a custom property but does not have
the User.visEquivTitle cell, Visio will display the shape's text in a
tooltip instead.

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.



"MTechG" wrote in message
...

On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:45 PM
MTech wrote:

Al I'll give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.
Al I will give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.



"Al Edlund" wrote:

EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
ASP.NET Process Killer Revisited
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...killer-re.aspx

A shapesheet can only have one User section. The fact that it is grayed out
indicates that a User Section already exists. The User-defined Cells section
will be the second section in the shapesheet. The first will be Shape
Transform which is there by default.

John... Visio MVP

"Gary Smart" wrote in message
...
your explanation assumes that when you try to insert a section into the
shapesheet that a user defined option is available. On my insert section
it ends with Smart Tags. I don't have the ability to click on user
defined. If I try to insert a section into User-defined cells, again the
last tag is smart tags. I don't know where to add the visEquivTitle.
Please help. This is for vision 2007



MTech wrote:

Al I'll give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.
01-Apr-08

Al I will give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.



"Al Edlund" wrote:

Previous Posts In This Thread:

On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:26 PM
MTech wrote:

Displaying Data on MouseOver
I got a flow chart that I'd like to have some data show up when a user
mouses
over a shape after I export it to Web. I figured out how to link objects
and
have them show up. I'm using Visio 2007 Std. I just watched a video
using
Display Data on Shapes but that was using Pro not Std. Let me know if
this a
short coming of Std.

TIA

On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:47 PM
Al Edlund wrote:

There is a function called 'tooltip' that works with a standard drawing.
There is a function called 'tooltip' that works with a standard drawing.
Mark Nelson put this out to illustrate how you might do it on the web.
al

I know many people have asked this question, and it has been partially
answered previously. Here is a more complete explanation.

Summary:
You can add the User.visEquivTitle cell to your shape and provide a string
that will display as a tooltip in the web output. The shape must also have
at least one custom property for the tooltip to be visible.

Steps:
1) Select the shape in your drawing that you want to add a web tooltip for
2) Go to Window Show Shapesheet
3) Go to Insert Section, check User-defined cells and click OK
4) In the newly created section, click on the row name User.Row_1 to
select
the title of the row
5) Type visEquivTitle and press Enter - you should now see
User.visEquivTitle for the row
6) In the Value cell of that row, enter the text you want to display
surrounded by quotes (e.g. "Hello World")
7) If you instead want to display the same tooltip as the Shape ScreenTip
enter =Comment (no quotes)
8) Go to Insert Section, check Custom properties and click OK
9) You can fill in the custom property Label and Value if you want this
information to be visible
10) If you don't want the custom property to be visible, enter TRUE in the
Invisible cell
11) Close the Shapesheet window and repeat for any other shape you like
12) Choose File Save as Web Page to create the HTML output

As you can see this is a bit involved. The capability was designed more as
a developer feature than an end user feature. I recommend tying the Shape
ScreenTip to the User cell so that you see the same tooltip in both Visio
and the web output. It should also be possible to use Macro Recorder to
automate these steps. If your shape has a custom property but does not
have
the User.visEquivTitle cell, Visio will display the shape's text in a
tooltip instead.

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.



"MTechG" wrote in message
...

On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:45 PM
MTech wrote:

Al I'll give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.
Al I will give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.



"Al Edlund" wrote:

EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
ASP.NET Process Killer Revisited
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...killer-re.aspx

If you aren't seeing the User section and it is grayed out in the Insert
Section, then the display is probably just turned off. Go to the View
Sections dialog and check the User-defined cells in this dialog to turn it
back on.
--
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Visio 2007 Applicaiton Development


"John... Visio MVP" wrote:

A shapesheet can only have one User section. The fact that it is grayed out
indicates that a User Section already exists. The User-defined Cells section
will be the second section in the shapesheet. The first will be Shape
Transform which is there by default.

John... Visio MVP

"Gary Smart" wrote in message
...
your explanation assumes that when you try to insert a section into the
shapesheet that a user defined option is available. On my insert section
it ends with Smart Tags. I don't have the ability to click on user
defined. If I try to insert a section into User-defined cells, again the
last tag is smart tags. I don't know where to add the visEquivTitle.
Please help. This is for vision 2007



MTech wrote:

Al I'll give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.
01-Apr-08

Al I will give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.



"Al Edlund" wrote:

Previous Posts In This Thread:

On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:26 PM
MTech wrote:

Displaying Data on MouseOver
I got a flow chart that I'd like to have some data show up when a user
mouses
over a shape after I export it to Web. I figured out how to link objects
and
have them show up. I'm using Visio 2007 Std. I just watched a video
using
Display Data on Shapes but that was using Pro not Std. Let me know if
this a
short coming of Std.

TIA

On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:47 PM
Al Edlund wrote:

There is a function called 'tooltip' that works with a standard drawing.
There is a function called 'tooltip' that works with a standard drawing.
Mark Nelson put this out to illustrate how you might do it on the web.
al

I know many people have asked this question, and it has been partially
answered previously. Here is a more complete explanation.

Summary:
You can add the User.visEquivTitle cell to your shape and provide a string
that will display as a tooltip in the web output. The shape must also have
at least one custom property for the tooltip to be visible.

Steps:
1) Select the shape in your drawing that you want to add a web tooltip for
2) Go to Window Show Shapesheet
3) Go to Insert Section, check User-defined cells and click OK
4) In the newly created section, click on the row name User.Row_1 to
select
the title of the row
5) Type visEquivTitle and press Enter - you should now see
User.visEquivTitle for the row
6) In the Value cell of that row, enter the text you want to display
surrounded by quotes (e.g. "Hello World")
7) If you instead want to display the same tooltip as the Shape ScreenTip
enter =Comment (no quotes)
8) Go to Insert Section, check Custom properties and click OK
9) You can fill in the custom property Label and Value if you want this
information to be visible
10) If you don't want the custom property to be visible, enter TRUE in the
Invisible cell
11) Close the Shapesheet window and repeat for any other shape you like
12) Choose File Save as Web Page to create the HTML output

As you can see this is a bit involved. The capability was designed more as
a developer feature than an end user feature. I recommend tying the Shape
ScreenTip to the User cell so that you see the same tooltip in both Visio
and the web output. It should also be possible to use Macro Recorder to
automate these steps. If your shape has a custom property but does not
have
the User.visEquivTitle cell, Visio will display the shape's text in a
tooltip instead.

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.



"MTechG" wrote in message
...

On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:45 PM
MTech wrote:

Al I'll give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.
Al I will give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.



"Al Edlund" wrote:

EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
ASP.NET Process Killer Revisited
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...killer-re.aspx


.

I have tried to follow these instructions using Visio 2007 but no success as yet.

1. Added screen shape tip (Insert Shape Screen Tip)
2. Added User.visEquivTitle cell with Value =Comment
3. In Visio 2007, Custom Properties have been replaced with Shape Data, and the shapes I am using already have shape data defined. So far, so good.

However, I have found that setting Invisible = TRUE for the Shape Data will hide everything in HTML (i.e no tooltip) while setting it to FALSE gives me too much (i.e. both the tool tip and the "CTRL+ CLICK to view details" message - I don't really want to show the shape data). Additionally setting Invisible = TRUE hides the shape data within Visio itself, which I also don't want.

I also tried hiding the shape data during the conversion to Web format (File, Save As Web Page, Publish, and unchecked the Details (shape data) box) but that also hid everything including the tooltip.

So at this point I guess my remaining option is to abandon the tooltip idea, and work entirely with the Shape Data, putting the information I need in there and using the CTRL+ Click functionality to access it in HTML? (will also need to go through and manually hide the shape data that I don't want to be visible, ho hum)

Is that how it is supposed to work in 2007?



Al Edlund wrote:

There is a function called 'tooltip' that works with a standard drawing.
01-Apr-08

There is a function called 'tooltip' that works with a standard drawing.
Mark Nelson put this out to illustrate how you might do it on the web.
al

I know many people have asked this question, and it has been partially
answered previously. Here is a more complete explanation.

Summary:
You can add the User.visEquivTitle cell to your shape and provide a string
that will display as a tooltip in the web output. The shape must also have
at least one custom property for the tooltip to be visible.

Steps:
1) Select the shape in your drawing that you want to add a web tooltip for
2) Go to Window Show Shapesheet
3) Go to Insert Section, check User-defined cells and click OK
4) In the newly created section, click on the row name User.Row_1 to select
the title of the row
5) Type visEquivTitle and press Enter - you should now see
User.visEquivTitle for the row
6) In the Value cell of that row, enter the text you want to display
surrounded by quotes (e.g. "Hello World")
7) If you instead want to display the same tooltip as the Shape ScreenTip
enter =Comment (no quotes)
8) Go to Insert Section, check Custom properties and click OK
9) You can fill in the custom property Label and Value if you want this
information to be visible
10) If you don't want the custom property to be visible, enter TRUE in the
Invisible cell
11) Close the Shapesheet window and repeat for any other shape you like
12) Choose File Save as Web Page to create the HTML output

As you can see this is a bit involved. The capability was designed more as
a developer feature than an end user feature. I recommend tying the Shape
ScreenTip to the User cell so that you see the same tooltip in both Visio
and the web output. It should also be possible to use Macro Recorder to
automate these steps. If your shape has a custom property but does not have
the User.visEquivTitle cell, Visio will display the shape's text in a
tooltip instead.

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.



"MTechG" wrote in message
...

Previous Posts In This Thread:

On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:26 PM
MTech wrote:

Displaying Data on MouseOver
I got a flow chart that I'd like to have some data show up when a user mouses
over a shape after I export it to Web. I figured out how to link objects and
have them show up. I'm using Visio 2007 Std. I just watched a video using
Display Data on Shapes but that was using Pro not Std. Let me know if this a
short coming of Std.

TIA

On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:47 PM
Al Edlund wrote:

There is a function called 'tooltip' that works with a standard drawing.
There is a function called 'tooltip' that works with a standard drawing.
Mark Nelson put this out to illustrate how you might do it on the web.
al

I know many people have asked this question, and it has been partially
answered previously. Here is a more complete explanation.

Summary:
You can add the User.visEquivTitle cell to your shape and provide a string
that will display as a tooltip in the web output. The shape must also have
at least one custom property for the tooltip to be visible.

Steps:
1) Select the shape in your drawing that you want to add a web tooltip for
2) Go to Window Show Shapesheet
3) Go to Insert Section, check User-defined cells and click OK
4) In the newly created section, click on the row name User.Row_1 to select
the title of the row
5) Type visEquivTitle and press Enter - you should now see
User.visEquivTitle for the row
6) In the Value cell of that row, enter the text you want to display
surrounded by quotes (e.g. "Hello World")
7) If you instead want to display the same tooltip as the Shape ScreenTip
enter =Comment (no quotes)
8) Go to Insert Section, check Custom properties and click OK
9) You can fill in the custom property Label and Value if you want this
information to be visible
10) If you don't want the custom property to be visible, enter TRUE in the
Invisible cell
11) Close the Shapesheet window and repeat for any other shape you like
12) Choose File Save as Web Page to create the HTML output

As you can see this is a bit involved. The capability was designed more as
a developer feature than an end user feature. I recommend tying the Shape
ScreenTip to the User cell so that you see the same tooltip in both Visio
and the web output. It should also be possible to use Macro Recorder to
automate these steps. If your shape has a custom property but does not have
the User.visEquivTitle cell, Visio will display the shape's text in a
tooltip instead.

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.



"MTechG" wrote in message
...

On Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:45 PM
MTech wrote:

Al I'll give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.
Al I will give this a try tomorrow at work. Thanks for the reply.



"Al Edlund" wrote:

On Friday, November 06, 2009 11:28 AM
Gary Smart wrote:

Visio 2007 visEquivTitle
your explanation assumes that when you try to insert a section into the shapesheet that a user defined option is available. On my insert section it ends with Smart Tags. I don't have the ability to click on user defined. If I try to insert a section into User-defined cells, again the last tag is smart tags. I don't know where to add the visEquivTitle. Please help. This is for vision 2007


Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
Creating a WPF Custom Control
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...ustom-con.aspx