I connected my visio professional 2010 diagram to an excel sheet with a list of items with some properties.
I want to display nice rectangles with the items name and some properties in it.
When I link a data item to a plain rectangle, the data appears but I am not able to format and configure it properly (e.g. fonts, colours, positions in the box).
I found general instructions how to link data and very complex documentation around shapesheet (whose complexity is a bot overwhelming for a visio newbie)
How can I - in a simple way - create boxes from linked data that have for example the item's name in bold, horizontally centered, at the top of the box, and some of its attributes (with label) in a smaller font below ?
Somehow I think of a preconfigured template of such a shape whose text-data can be populated semi-automatically from excel data following this process:
Preparation:
Link excel data to diagram (clear)
Create shape template (unclear)
Doing:
link data items to shape instances (clear)
Free Visual Layout (clear)
Do preparation step 1 to ONE shape. Remove the data graphics Select
the shape, menu insert / field. Insert the desired shape data from
the list. (https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Insert-a-text-field-into-a-shape-0225c22e-3e5e-4ea7-9ca0-1ec91386cb1e)
Show the document stencil or create a new stencil.
drop the shape into the stencil. It is now a Master
Having the master selected in the stencil, drop rows from the external data window onto your drawing. Visio will use that master as standard shape.
HTH, Y.
The solution is to create your own "data graphics". Actually Visio's help is sufficient to get it going. Searching for that key word in Visio help or support.office.com yields instructions how to use it.
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Just see as following image
what I want to realize is, when I choose a specific area in the Area dropbox, The Block dropbox only shows the content which only belong to the selected area. How to realize that in tableau? Area and Block are both parameters.
I would advice you to use filter. then for the block filter,click the arrow on the top right and select "Only Relevant Values".The block filter will then refresh after you choose an area to show only the blocks related to that area.
For parameters currently the dynamic refresh feature is not present, though it is being demanded.
Filters can cascade in Tableau if you select the "Relevant Values" option on the quick filter. (see the little black triangle in the top right of the quick filter).
You may want to also put the two fields into a hierarchy to teach Tableau that Blocks are subordinate to Areas, but Tableau will try to show only relevant values even if you don't define the hierarchies explicitly. To make a hierarchy, drag fields on top of each other in the data pane on the left.
There is no concept of relevant values for parameters currently. Each has an independent range of values. Parameters are not tied to a data source.
My company has a Visio document that displays a proposed server relationship structure. For each 3D server shape, we have added text to the shape data, e.g. IP address, Server Name, RAM, Service Tag, etc. We would like to be able to print the shape data as an additional sheet to our main server structure document in preparation of meetings.
We are using Visio Professional 2013, at the application level, and we are unable to figure out how to print this shape data. I have not even been able to figure out how to export the data to Excel so I can print from there. Can someone please help, all the information on the web is for previous versions of Visio? Thank You.
You could try "Shape Reports" on "Review" Tab.
This function allows you to select the shape attributes for the report, format of the report (html/excel/extra page/etc), and execute the report.
I have a requirement where I am arranging a large number of responses(text) in form of predefined templates. Depending on the text size, the boxes are allotted to the response. There are three sizes for the boxes. These boxes are then arranged in to defined 10-15 templates.
Since I do not have rights to post image, I am unable to show them here. Hope the idea is conveyed.
I would be displaying the responses in the best matched template. so the final page would be like 5 instances of Template1 followed by two instances of Template3 etc.
Is there any way I can achieve the same in Jasper reports or may be some other tool by which the same can be done to export this to PDF format.
I want a dataset small enough to be loaded in a text editor (with formatting turned on), but representative of the whole data. I want it for prototype scripts, but I dont want it to be missing stuff present in full datasets.
The smallest dataset I downloaded is 15MB. Is there smaller than 1MB?
Go to http://www.openstreetmap.org. Move to an area with medium-sized towns and zoom so that you can see the whole of a single smallish town. Click on the 'Export' tab. Click on 'Manually select a different area'. Drag out a small rectangle, for example west=-0.6309, south=51.7446, east=-0.539, north=51.7791 (Berkhamsted, U.K.). Click on the 'OpenStreetMap XML Data' radio button then press the 'Export' button. You will receive a reasonably representative data set 1.6Mb in size. This example contains most road types except motorways, and is a good subset of typical OSM data. No data set apart from planet.osm contains every tag, of course.
I wanted to find out how to specify fields to appear side-by-side in BIRT layout e.g.- City State Zip in a address line. By default, it seems to put the fields one below another and I can't seem to find a way to reposition them side-by-side
BIRT 2.6.0 and Eclipse Helios
I would use a grid to control the placement of the controls on the page. BIRT uses a web design metaphor and as such things need to be placed explicitly on a page. When you are building a page in simple HTML you often need a table or some other structural element to control how one piece of text (or image) relates to another. BIRT is no different in this regard.
Good Luck!
Using a grid for this is not the right solution unless you actually want elements aligned into columns.
If you set the Display value of your Data elements to Inline instead of Block they will be displayed side by side on the same line exactly like you want.
I use BIRT 2.3.2, and it normally puts fields side-by-side, by default. This may be an issue to do with which report item type you are using to display your data - try using a table, rather than a list report item.
The BIRT does not follow the placement of element based upon the X, Y coordinate instead it used relative tabular layout. So, fields can only be placed in sequential manner. To align it perfectly, Grid control can be used with needed rows and columns and set the width and height of columns.
However, this is just a workaround to place the element, exact placement of element on absolute position is yet not available. May be in future release it could be added into the BIRT.