Importing visio properties from access

[denislh]

I have a visio diagram with about 100 identical square shapes which I want to import property information from an access database.

The squares represent boats at a boat club and I want to incorporate boat owner information (name, boat size, billing info) which is maintained in access into their corresponding object in the visio.

Is this possible?
Thanks.

 

[IRstuff]

How are the shapes identified in Visio?

I don't see that it's impossible, but you'd need to have some sort of identifier in Visio that you can use to find the corresponding data in Access. You can then possibly use the Custom Properies to embed the data. You'd need to think about how many items and how they're organized and create those corresponding custom properties for each shape.

Presumably, all of this can be done from a VBA macro.

TTFN