Connection Points / Connectors - Resizing with shape/group....

[Brandy]

Yes, this is Brandy again...

Is there a Function / Code, Formula or anything to keep connectors stationary to resize when you reduce the size of an entire diagram/drawing?

I locked them down, glued them, snapped them, I changed the ObjectType in ShapeSheet, I locked the Master "Dynamitic Connector",  played with them and they will not resize with the diagram..  

I tried the following function/formula but it did not work…  (It enlarge the Title of my diagram…)

•  User.defined:
      User.YSpaceHt=1

•  Connection Points:  
      Y=GUARD(0*User.YSpaceHt)
      Y=GUARD(1*User.YSpaceHt)
      Y=GUARD(2*User.YSpaceHT)
      Width*3
      Height*4

•  Text Transform:
   o  TxtPinX   =GUARD(3cm)
   o  TxtLocPinX   =0

Any, any help is greatly appreciated.  

If not, trust me, I do understand...  I have asked too much of you guys...

Thanks

Brandy

[Yacine]

Hi Brandy, it is not really clear to me what you are trying to do.
Pse send a vsd rather than a picture.

[Brandy]

I did, it's there... look above the picture...

Brandy

[Yacine]

sorry, overlooked it.

The behaviour is a classical case of over-challenged connector.
You corrected the connector manually and it stayed where you wanted it to be.
Right click on it and chose "reset connector".

What I could offer to you is the red, "non printable", "connector distributing" line in the attachment as small work around

[Brandy]

There's no way I would be able to reset over 1000 connectors.... There has to be another way...

thank you so much for all your help.

Brandy

[Yacine]

c'mon, stop bluffing, there are only 647. isn't it?

[Brandy]

I wish....

[wapperdude]

Just out of curiosity, why do you need to resize?  Is this a hard copy thing?

You can make your drawing page size arbitrarily large, either using standard sheet sizes or custom, so fitting your contents onto a Visio drawing page shouldn't be an issue.  Then, comes the question of printing, but, you can let the print setup fit the contents to a single sheet if desired.  So, it comes down to how much stuff do you want to cram onto a give page. 

Anyway, something to consider.

Wapperdude

[Brandy]

Sweetie, this is the same problem/issue of Resizing Text.... It's part of the resizing text issue.  We solved the problem of resizing the text... but now, when I run the script and resize the diagram, everything resizes but the connectors. 

I have over a hundred diagrams on one page. (36x150)  I need to resize each drawing to fix on one page. 

I'm almost there... I just need to figure out this "Connectors" issue...

This is driving me crazy....

Any, any, any, any help is greatly appreciated.

Again, thank you so, so much.

Brandy

[Yacine]

No Brandy, Wapperdude is probably closer to the solution, than you think. The idea is worth going two steps backwards.

[Brandy]

Thanks Yacine, you are correct...

Excellent idea... I'm at the point that I will try almost.... anything...

In advance, thank you so, so much.

Brandy

[Yacine]

So again, why do you need to resize the groups? Could you consider working with a big document with normal sized groups inside, instead of having a normal sized document with a lot of resized groups?

[Brandy]

see for yourself...

Attachment

Thanks

Brandy

[Yacine]

So what? That won't get any better if you scale it.
Adjust the scale of your drawing!

Actually you need to set the page's zoom to fit 1 page, Set the page size (2nd tab) what ever suits you best, leave the other tabs unchanged. With these settings you won't need to inject any anti-scale formula in your shapes.

[Brandy]

It has those settings already.... now what?

Brandy