Overview of Data Graphics and Graphic Items You could then apply the progress bar to a selection of project shapes and show each project's progress toward completion visually. You may associate a progress bar with a particular item of shape data, such as the percentage of project completion. For example, say that your drawing contains several data-linked shapes, each of which represents a project at a particular stage of completion. To display linked data programmatically, you can use the Visio API for data display, which includes the following objects and their associated members:Īfter you link shapes in your Visio drawing to rows in a data recordset, you can graphically display the linked data programmatically. For more information about the other aspects of data connectivity, see the following topics: This topic deals with the third and fourth of these aspects, displaying linked data graphically in shapes in your Visio, and refreshing data. Typically, you approach these aspects in the order in which they are listed that is, you first connect your Visio drawing to a data source, then link shapes in your drawing to data in the data source, display the data in linked shapes graphically, and refresh the linked data when necessary.Įach of these aspects has new objects and members associated with it in the Visio object model. Refreshing linked data that has changed in the data source, updating linked shapes, and resolving any subsequent conflicts that may arise.There are four aspects of data connectivity in Visio:

Note Data-connectivity features are available only to licensed users of Microsoft Visio Professional 2013.

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