Children Shape Question

[MacGyver]

Is it at all possible for a child shape within a group to not grow/shrink in coordination with its parent shape without using Guard()?  Basically would just like to keep its formula local.

I want the ability to manipulate some of the children shapes end points and the ability to manipulate (through typical visio interface) the width of the entire group but without one affecting the other.  Typically the child shapes formula for its endpoint looks something like "Sheet.1!Width*0.5" where Sheet.1 is the parent shape.

Thanks,
Josh

[JohnGoldsmith]

Do you mean just resize a sub-shape with a fixed (rather relative) value? If so you can set the sub-shape's ResizeMode cell to 1 and then convert the Width and Height cells to values.  Any subsequent changes to the sub-shape's size in the UI will receive absolute values and so not resize with the group.

Have I understood correctly?

Best regards

John

[wapperdude]

Whaaaaat???   . ResizeMode cell?  I tried to find something like that as a solution, couldn't find it.      . Where might it be?

Wapperdude

[wapperdude]

Whoa!  There it is, big as life, Shape Transform section.  Must've looked at that 1000X.  Sometimes the light just doesn't want to go on!   

[JohnGoldsmith]

Sorry, I should have mentioned the section.  It's also mirrored in the UI in the Behavior dialog (on the Developer tab).

[wapperdude]

Hmmm.  I know I've tried the "behavior" route, but never seemed to work.  As I recall, those three options never made a difference.  Guess I need to go back and take a closer look.

Thanks.
Wapperdude

[JohnGoldsmith]

Hi,

I agree.  I don't think the 'behavior' of the Behavior dialog is consistent.  I'd expect that setting to 'Reposition only' (1) would convert the formula to values in the Width and Height cells, but I found I had to make that change manually a couple of times.

Best regards

John

[wapperdude]

That's really good to hear.     Thought I might have an installation issue. 

Wapperdude