access to sub types of shapes

[DJozef87]

Hello,

my question is simple, sometimes in visio elements we have sub types (agent: agent or human agent...) and we modified this type in the context menu. What is the property that contains these sub-types in the code, because the return of shape.Name is the Global type

[Paul Herber]

Depends on how the shape was created, is it a standard Visio shape? If so then what shape from which stencil?

[DJozef87]

Let's take the example of the Relationship link of Object Relational stencil... in the contextuel menu we can put it as Relational Notation or IDEF1X Notation...

[Paul Herber]

For that particular shape you need to look through the shape's Actions section, here there are 4 rows, in each row look at the value of the Checked cell, if and when you find the one set to 1 look at the equivalent menu cell and see what the setting is.

[DJozef87]

I understand your reasoning. but from a given shape how can I access to the Action section to access the rows

[Paul Herber]

Use the shape's CellSRC method, the appropriate section is visSectionAction.
Google wll show you many examples.

[DJozef87]

Thank you It works