Hello,
I would like to automatically create Visio diagrams that have “swim lane-like” features and automatically load the objects into the containers. Here's how I believe I see the process.
Process (best guess)
o Link to SharePoint (hopefully) or Excel for the data. For example we have a list that has all the technologies/applications we use. One of the pieces of data we collect is location (NA/SA/EMEA/APAC).
o Manually Build the swim lanes objects in visio. In this case 4 vertical swimlanes for NA/SA/EMEA/APAC.
o Manually Drag the objects from the linked data onto the visio diagram.
o Use the Automatic Link or some other process to align themselves to the correct container according to the location metadata.
I may be off here, but you get the idea. As the data changes, I'd want the shapes to move. It's a bad example, but if a technology moved from North America to the UK, I'd want to do a refresh and see the shape move from the NA container to the EMEA one.
Make sense? Any help? Hopiing to do this with minimal coding if any.
Thanks!
