Converting Org Chart doc from older version

[John Goldsmith \(Visio MVP\)]

Hello Biggaford,

It may be difficult without prompts. What version were the older documents
produced in and what version are you now using (I'm assuming 2007)?

I'm also assuming they're in binary (.vsd) not xml (.vdx) format?

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith (Visio MVP)
www.visualSignals.typepad.co.uk
www.visualSignals.co.uk


From previous post.....

.....Since I am here now, i had another trouble when opening some org charts,
it
gave a prompt that says the shapes of the chart need to be converted to the
current version of Visio before the document opened. These docs are
ignored,
thus slowing my processing as they have to be manually modified. Also,
prompts keep on appearing for some functional charts.

Is there a way I can get around these programatically.

Thank you very much.

 

[Biggaford]

Hello Biggaford,

It may be difficult without prompts. What version were the older documents
produced in and what version are you now using (I'm assuming 2007)?

I'm also assuming they're in binary (.vsd) not xml (.vdx) format?

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith (Visio MVP)
www.visualSignals.typepad.co.uk
www.visualSignals.co.uk

I am currently using Ms Visio professional 2003
older version is 2002

And yes, the files are in VSD format.
thank you for your help.

 

[John Goldsmith \(Visio MVP\)]

Hello Biggaford,

There must be some kind of version check event being run as the document
opens (in the Org Chart addon), so you can prevent this by either unchecking
the 'Enable automation events' under Tools / Options / Advanced tab or
setting the EventsEnabled property of the Application object via code.

Note that this will prevent all events from firing so you may want to only
disable it temporarily.

Hope that helps.

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith (Visio MVP)
www.visualSignals.typepad.co.uk
www.visualSignals.co.uk

 

[Barb Way]

Also note that until you do (convert them), the older shapes (from Visio
2002) may not behave properly in the Visio 2003 solution. The shapes were
completely redesigned in 2003 for the Org Chart solution, so you will want
to allow the conversion at some point if you intend to continue using the
drawings in Visio 2003 or Visio 2007.

Barb Way
Product Support - Visio
Microsoft Corporation
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Hello Biggaford,

There must be some kind of version check event being run as the document
opens (in the Org Chart addon), so you can prevent this by either
unchecking
the 'Enable automation events' under Tools / Options / Advanced tab or
setting the EventsEnabled property of the Application object via code.

Note that this will prevent all events from firing so you may want to only
disable it temporarily.

Hope that helps.

Best regards

John


John Goldsmith (Visio MVP)
www.visualSignals.typepad.co.uk
www.visualSignals.co.uk