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Microsoft Visio 2013 Business Process Diagramming and Validation - Second Edition

You're reading from  Microsoft Visio 2013 Business Process Diagramming and Validation - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782178002
Pages 416 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
David Parker David Parker
Profile icon David Parker

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Overview of Process Management in Microsoft Visio 2013 2. Understanding the Microsoft Visio Object Model 3. Understanding the ShapeSheet™ 4. Understanding the Validation API 5. Developing a Validation API Interface 6. Reviewing Validation Rules and Issues 7. Creating Validation Rules 8. Publishing Validation Rules and Diagrams 9. A Worked Example for Data Flow Model Diagrams – Part 1 10. A Worked Example for Data Flow Model Diagrams – Part 2 11. A Worked Example for Data Flow Model Diagrams – Part 3 12. Integrating Validated Diagrams with SharePoint 2013 and Office365 Index

Important sections for rules validation

When validating documents, there are some sections that are more important and more regularly used than others. Therefore, we will look at just a few of the sections in detail.

Looking at the User-defined Cells section

The User-defined Cells section is used to store hidden variables (because they are never displayed in the UI unless you open the ShapeSheet) and perform calculations. There are just two columns in this section. The first, Value, is normally where the real work is done, and the second, Prompt, is often used as a description of the row.

Note

You can make Shape Data rows invisible too (by setting the Invisible cell to True), usually, though, you do not need the overhead of all the other cells in the row, so a User-defined Cell is more efficient.

Microsoft will often use specially named User-defined Cell rows to hold specific information. For example, the Task shape has a named row, User.msvShapeCategories, which is used to specify the category...

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