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How to change all Connectors
Visio 2003
Well, I think I know what to do but not how to do it in a specific Visio.vsd file. I wish to change all connectors from "Universal connector.127" To: "Dynamic connector.85" Also, how do I make all connectors generated by the connector tool to be "Dynamic connector.85"? The answers to these will solve many issues that I have. Any help is appreciated! Dennis |
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My razor-sharp Visio-developer sense is giving me the feeling there might be
a deeper problem, that could be solved in a completely different way. Any chance you could describe the whole situation? -- Hope this helps, Chris Roth Visio MVP "Dennis" wrote in message oups.com... Visio 2003 Well, I think I know what to do but not how to do it in a specific Visio.vsd file. I wish to change all connectors from "Universal connector.127" To: "Dynamic connector.85" Also, how do I make all connectors generated by the connector tool to be "Dynamic connector.85"? The answers to these will solve many issues that I have. Any help is appreciated! Dennis |
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Hello Chris,
My responsibility is to review numerous Visio files. Quite often, what looks the same on the screen is not the same in reality. Dynamic connectors vs. Universal connectors are a frustrating issue when it comes time to re-do the more important aspects of the flowchart.vsd files. Every day I learn how much more there is to know about Visio. Since the files may need changing for many reasons, I would like to make sure that a Dynamic connector (DC) that has a control handle (as you know one can create a DC w/o a control handle to move the position-on-the-text-line) is preferred. Therefore, I would like to open a Visio file, select all connectors and change them to a standard format. If there are any Universal Connectors I would like to concert them to DC's. I have made sure that as of today that all of the staff have the "preferred" dynamic connector in their stencil to use in the future. Thoughts? Thanks Dennis ************************************************** * "Chris Roth [ Visio MVP ]" wrote: My razor-sharp Visio-developer sense is giving me the feeling there might be a deeper problem, that could be solved in a completely different way. Any chance you could describe the whole situation? -- Hope this helps, Chris Roth Visio MVP "Dennis" wrote in message oups.com... Visio 2003 Well, I think I know what to do but not how to do it in a specific Visio.vsd file. I wish to change all connectors from "Universal connector.127" To: "Dynamic connector.85" Also, how do I make all connectors generated by the connector tool to be "Dynamic connector.85"? The answers to these will solve many issues that I have. Any help is appreciated! Dennis |
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A couple of things. I'm not sure if you're working with code, or by
hand...but this will get you started in the right direction. Every document has a "local stencil" called the Document Stencil, where masters are copied. Changes to these masters are reflected in all shapes in the document. Go to: File Shapes Show Document Stencil to see it. So, you could change a Universal Connector master so that it behaved more like the Dynamic Connector. I don't think you can simply replace the shape inside of the master with a new shape - that's too drastic. But you could update the Universal Connector to behave like the Dynamic connector, and all of the shapes in the doc will inherit this new behavior. Another alternative is to replace the connectors on the page with the Dynamic connector. This involves pre-scanning each shape for info, like who it's connected to, it's text, etc. Then you delete the shape, drop a Dynamic connector, give it the overrides from the shape, and you're up to date. The part that might not work here is if the user has customized the routing path. The new connector will just do it's automatic routing. Although you might even be able to jam the geometry from the original into the new. Does this make any sense or am I speaking Visio-ish too thickly? -- Hope this helps, Chris Roth Visio MVP "Dennis" wrote in message ... Hello Chris, My responsibility is to review numerous Visio files. Quite often, what looks the same on the screen is not the same in reality. Dynamic connectors vs. Universal connectors are a frustrating issue when it comes time to re-do the more important aspects of the flowchart.vsd files. Every day I learn how much more there is to know about Visio. Since the files may need changing for many reasons, I would like to make sure that a Dynamic connector (DC) that has a control handle (as you know one can create a DC w/o a control handle to move the position-on-the-text-line) is preferred. Therefore, I would like to open a Visio file, select all connectors and change them to a standard format. If there are any Universal Connectors I would like to concert them to DC's. I have made sure that as of today that all of the staff have the "preferred" dynamic connector in their stencil to use in the future. Thoughts? Thanks Dennis ************************************************** * "Chris Roth [ Visio MVP ]" wrote: My razor-sharp Visio-developer sense is giving me the feeling there might be a deeper problem, that could be solved in a completely different way. Any chance you could describe the whole situation? -- Hope this helps, Chris Roth Visio MVP "Dennis" wrote in message oups.com... Visio 2003 Well, I think I know what to do but not how to do it in a specific Visio.vsd file. I wish to change all connectors from "Universal connector.127" To: "Dynamic connector.85" Also, how do I make all connectors generated by the connector tool to be "Dynamic connector.85"? The answers to these will solve many issues that I have. Any help is appreciated! Dennis |
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Chris,
Yesterday, I learned quite a bit about connectors. "Google Search" helped me locate how to change a "line" to a connector by checking Page SetupLayout & Routing coupled with FormatBehaivorConnector and the value of ObjType. Also, that if the Connector tab is not in the Behavior Box, then I am dealing with a line not a Dynamic connector. To be trite, At the end of the day, if I could programatically change the attribute?? ObjType of all non-dynamic connectors (NDC) to dynamic (DC) (ShapeSheetMiscellaneousObjType =2) AND make sure that all modified DC's had a Control Handle (The little yellow square tilted 45 degrees which permits one to move the location of the connector's text box) I would be very happy. The reason I want DC is to be able to "jump" other non-intersecting connector lines. I can work with VBA especially XL, some Word, and verrry little in Visio. Dennis |
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