Off Page reference in Visio 2010

[jdj420]

Hello all! I am trying to figure out how to get off page references to update the text displayed in the shape based on the page of their targets. In other words, if i have an off page reference on page 1 and its target is on page 3 i would like for the shape on page 1 to say "TO PAGE 3" and the shape on page 3 to say "FROM PAGE 1" additionally, i would like the shapes to update automatically if either of them is moved to another page. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated!

[Paul Herber]

Select the shape, then open the shape's shapesheet, add a row to the User-defined cells section, in the Value cell, type = then click on the Hyperlink sub-address cell, That will put the appropriate formula in your user-defined cell. Make a note of the user-defined cell's name. Close the shapesheet editor.
Edit the shape's text, ribbon Insert -> Field -> User-defined cells, then select the name of your new cell.
Job done.

[aledlund]

David Parker has done a couple of blog posts on the off-page connector.  You might check them out over here
http://blog.bvisual.net/?s=off+page+connector

al

[wapperdude]

In addition to what Paul and Al indicate, you may want to check out this post:  http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=5518.msg22083#msg22083.

Regarding your "from" location indication, that's more difficult.  My feeling is that would require some code.  The hyperlinks are good to point where to go, but, to indicate where you came from would require storing some information dynamically and then display it.  Hyperlinks don't have that mechanism.

Wapperdude

ED. Add:
Re-read original post, (BTW, did not read the David Parker linked post in detail) but, there's a 2nd more fundamental issue:  Visio doesn't automatically update the links when you move the target shape to a new page.  Well, at least not in V2007 and earlier.  Basically, hyperlinks are a hard code.  Believe that's still true in the newer versions of Visio.  The David Parker link may address the auto updating so you may want to go to his site and explore.  The solution is probably more code.