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Published inJul 2010
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PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781849680141
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David Parker
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David Parker

David J Parker's background has been in data visualization ever since he struggled to produce lists of hospital equipment from Computer Aided Design models of buildings as a budding architect in the '80s. He moved into building and infrastructure asset management in the late '80s using a Unix system and gradually migrated to Windows-based systems throughout the '90s. He became a European Business partner of Visio Corporation in 1996 and presented the database-linked Visio solutions that he was providing merchant banks in London and New York with at several international conferences. David started bVisual Ltd. in 1998, which provides Visio-based solutions to various industries, and became a Silver-level Microsoft partner. He has been a Microsoft MVP (Visio) for the last 12 years and has helped Microsoft Corp, UK and Western Europe, by providing Visio solutions, training, website content, and presentations. David has had several books on Visio published and has been presenting Visio/SharePoint integration courses for many years for Microsoft Western Europe, from Oslo in the North down to Lisbon in the South. He has presented at SQL and SharePoint Saturday conferences and writes a regular blog for people interested in Microsoft Visio.
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What are the 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.

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), but usually 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 row named, User.msvShapeCategories, which is used to specify the category...

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Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation
Published in: Jul 2010Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849680141

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David Parker

David J Parker's background has been in data visualization ever since he struggled to produce lists of hospital equipment from Computer Aided Design models of buildings as a budding architect in the '80s. He moved into building and infrastructure asset management in the late '80s using a Unix system and gradually migrated to Windows-based systems throughout the '90s. He became a European Business partner of Visio Corporation in 1996 and presented the database-linked Visio solutions that he was providing merchant banks in London and New York with at several international conferences. David started bVisual Ltd. in 1998, which provides Visio-based solutions to various industries, and became a Silver-level Microsoft partner. He has been a Microsoft MVP (Visio) for the last 12 years and has helped Microsoft Corp, UK and Western Europe, by providing Visio solutions, training, website content, and presentations. David has had several books on Visio published and has been presenting Visio/SharePoint integration courses for many years for Microsoft Western Europe, from Oslo in the North down to Lisbon in the South. He has presented at SQL and SharePoint Saturday conferences and writes a regular blog for people interested in Microsoft Visio.
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