How can I set set value for properties of Shapes

[bazinga]

Hi Guys,
Visio newbie here.

The user defined cells value is read only and cannot be changed according to this microsoft page - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff765764.aspx

My goal is to mark the shape so that I can identify it later in the code. For example, I copy a shape and move towards right. Then I repeat this for 5 times. Now I have 6 shapes. I'd like to mark all these shapes so that I can access it through some property value and group them. I cannot use the name or other existing properties because the shapes can be used somewhere in the same document.

Any ideas?

Thank you for you help.

[Yacine]

Hi Bazinga,
If you had read the article of the mentioned link till the end, you would have found that despite CELLS is read only, it has a property FORMULA that has read/write access.
Thus: shp.cells("user.myProperty").formula=chr(34)&"something"&chr(34)

HTH,
Y.