Hello,
New to Visio development. I tried searching for an answer to my issue on here & via Google with no luck. I hope I can explain my issue accurately.
I have created several shapes in Visio, each with custom data fields. In each shape I insert a text field and link it to display data from the custom data fields. I can edit the data in the fields and the text is updated as expected. When I save the visio drawing. all the shapes display a 0 instead of the text in the data field. When I look at the data in the custom fields, the data is still there.
Visio version: 2010 Professional 32 bit & 64 bit.
Windows 7 Pro: 64 bit.
Anyone seen this kind of behavior before?
Thanks for any assistance.
On visio 2003....never had that problem on 100s of drawings
You could try to use user cells and see if makes a difference
(user.mytext = props.mytext ===> insert user.mytext into shape view)
visio has been pretty good about view refreshes....but may want to try to manually refresh view after open
(if you want....can trigger on shape)
(actions.refresh = setf(getref(actions.refresh.checked), not(actions.refresh.checked)) )
(<user or prop cells> = formula + DEPENDSON(actions.refresh.checked) )
(right click shape ==> click on actions.refresh This will trigger the user or prop cell to be reevaluated)
(may not help....but just maybe forces the field insert to redo / update).
Guys with visio 2010 may be closer to the "action" and may have seen this
I have this behavior only with new property that is initialized with Value= (No Formla).
This can be solved by entering some dummy value and directly remove it.
Afterwards the field is Value="" and everything works fine.
Can you upload a demonstration?
@Thomas & vojo
Thanks for the quick response. I am out of office but will try these suggestions when I get back. I just did not know where to start. I'll update this post with/if the solution that worked.
Quote from: vojo on December 29, 2014, 04:10:17 AM
On visio 2003....never had that problem on 100s of drawings
You could try to use user cells and see if makes a difference
(user.mytext = props.mytext ===> insert user.mytext into shape view)
You are correct on the Visio 2003 part, I have never had an issue with this on the older Visio, just something new that has cropped up after switching to 2010.
- I did try inserting the field referencing the props
- I added the user section and redirected as you suggested above.
Neither approach worked.
I added the refresh function as you described. Still does it.
I can't figure this one out.... I'm leaning towards it being a bug(feature)
Thanks for the suggestions!
Quote from: Thomas Winkel on December 29, 2014, 08:21:55 AM
I have this behavior only with new property that is initialized with Value= (No Formla).
This can be solved by entering some dummy value and directly remove it.
Afterwards the field is Value="" and everything works fine.
Can you upload a demonstration?
Thomas, I just tried this as well. I did find where the cell had a "No Formula" in it. I changed it to ="".
Still no luck here, everytime I save, it replaces the text with a 0.
Thanks for the suggestion!