Connectors

[wdhough]

I have five boxes in my visio diagram connected via four connections. I am
looking at the raw XML of the visio file as i wish to anaylse this to extract
information. Under page/shapes i have 9 shapes the first five of which
appear to be the boxes (4 process and 1 decision if that is relevant) and i
then seem to have 4 connector shapes. So ID wise the boxes are 1-5, these
connector shapes are 6-9. I am trying to read the xml to work out which
boxes are connected. Under the page/shapes/connections i can find this code
snippet. Where can i find the which boxes are connected? I am assuming it
is here, tell me if i'm wrong and if so where

<Connect FromSheet="6" FromCell="BeginX" FromPart="9" ToSheet="3"
ToCell="Connections.X1" ToPart="100" />
<Connect FromSheet="6" FromCell="EndX" FromPart="12" ToSheet="4"
ToCell="Connections.X4" ToPart="103" />
<Connect FromSheet="7" FromCell="BeginX" FromPart="9" ToSheet="3"
ToCell="Connections.X2" ToPart="101" />
<Connect FromSheet="7" FromCell="EndX" FromPart="12" ToSheet="5"
ToCell="Connections.X4" ToPart="103" />
<Connect FromSheet="8" FromCell="BeginX" FromPart="9" ToSheet="2"
ToCell="Connections.X3" ToPart="102" />
<Connect FromSheet="8" FromCell="EndX" FromPart="12" ToSheet="3"
ToCell="Connections.X3" ToPart="102" />
<Connect FromSheet="9" FromCell="BeginX" FromPart="9" ToSheet="1"
ToCell="Connections.X3" ToPart="102" />
<Connect FromSheet="9" FromCell="EndX" FromPart="12" ToSheet="2"
ToCell="Connections.X4" ToPart="103" />

 

[Bill Morein [MSFT]]

You are correct that this is the section containing information about how
things are connected.

Chris Roth has a description of how this works in an earlier post:
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...ce9cba8e57d/4839ad7998957b97#4839ad7998957b97

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Bill Morein
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation
http://blogs.msdn.com/wmorein

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