Master Selectors Section in Shapesheet

[Yacine]

Now that's funny.
Inserting my usual prop and user sections in a shapesheet, I stumbled over the option "Master Selectors".
Tried it out and found the section at the very end of the shapesheet.
And wonder, neither Google nor Bing know anything about it.


It may be a select by master thing and what is that MasterMapping doing?


Cheers,
Y.


PS: Visio Plan 2

[Surrogate]

Visio 2019 Pro: I cant find this section there...

I stumbled over the option "Master Selectors".

What it is?

[Yacine]

Right click in empty space of shapesheet - option "insert section" - Master selectors".


... and just found out, that it is enabled for groups, not for virgin regular shapes.

[wapperdude]

I always suspected you were from alternate universe.  I do not have such a shapesheet option.  Even if I right click -> View, which shows, presumably, all possible shapesheet sections, there is no such option.

Desktop, V2019 Pro.

[Yacine]

mind the group remark

and yes, sorry - wasn't it obvious with that avatar?


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Nunc illo es amusante.
Inserente mi sectiones usual de prop e user in un shapesheet, io incideva super le option 'Selector de Maestro'.
Io lo tentava e trovava le section al extremo del shapesheet.
E io me demanda, nec Google nec Bing sape ullo de isto.

Pote esser un selecto per maestro e que facer iste 'MasterMapping'?

...e justo discoperiva que illo es habilitate pro gruppos, non pro shapes regular virgin.

Prosit,


  (I love Chat GPT)

[wapperdude]

   There was a group remark???  I missed reading it.     My bad.

Ok!!!  So.  There it isn't.  Groups???  We don't need no stinkin' groups.  (Vague, paraphrased movie reference.)  Nope.  Still not there... poor reading skills notwithstanding.

Next hint?  Take your time.  Off to get some coffee.

[Yacine]

So may be I took the Visio installation from the other side. That would explain why the search engines haven't found anything.
I'll try the search engines from the other side to check.
Will report.

[Nikolay]

I have this option (in the latest version?). For both group and non-group shapes (for non-group shapes, it's disabled). I have no idea what it is doing, though

[Yacine]

See? I haven't jumped in here alone.

[Yacine]

Where could one ask questions directly to Microsoft's Visio dev personnel?

[Nikolay]

Do you think there are some Visio developers left (in Microsoft)? 

[Yacine]

I'm naive indeed.

[wapperdude]

Uh.  So the object model has changed...but not updated???

I heard rumor that I just made up, all Visio developers are locked inside a Faraday cage.

On serious note, have you tried adding that section for editing.  What cells are in it? 

[Yacine]

It's shown in the first image I posted.
The left column (MasterColumn takes a string).
The right column (MasterMapping) takes a number. It has in so far a strange behavior that you cannot reference it. It says "MasterSelectors.Row_1Y8" But throws an error.

[Yacine]

Found them, but am still missing an email address.
Wayne, are you the closest to them? Can you hop over?