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Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849680141
Pages 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
David Parker David Parker
Profile icon David Parker

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Overview of Process Management in Microsoft Visio 2010 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

Extensions to our ribbon


Our Rules Tools group in the Process tab of the Visio ribbon needs to be extended to include our new features. The features can be viewed in the following screenshot:

There are four new buttons required. They are:

  • Annotate

  • Report

  • Export

  • Import

These are added to Ribbon.xml and the relevant callbacks are added to the Ribbon class.

The Annotate button is enabled for all diagrams, but the other buttons are only enabled when the Rules Explorer window is open, and I have arranged them on the dropdown menu of a split button.

The OnAction event of the Annotate button checks whether the active page type is a visTypeForeground. This is because a user may inadvertently be on a reviewer (visTypeMarkup) or background (visTypeBackground) page when the button is clicked. This is explained further in the next section.

case "buttonAnnotate":
Globals.ThisAddIn.OnActionAnnotateIssues();
break;

The ThisAddin class has the following method:

public void OnActionAnnotateIssues()
...
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