Guru Question Visio 2007 Auto Generate Shapes according to data so

T

Tim::..

Hi,

I was hoping someone might be able to tell me how I get visio to
automatically insert a shape according to an excel spreadsheet or sql
database.

IE: I have 400 servers I want to put on a visio drawing. All these servers
have a unique server name that I would like the shape to have as it's text
name. Is it possible to create some kind of automatic generation of shapes
according to the number of records contained in a data source and spit them
out on a page.

EG: Data Source

Server1
Server2
Server3

Then 3 server shapes are automatically placed on a visio document called
server1, server2, server3

I hope someone can help!

Thanks
 
A

Al Edlund

Tim,
send me a note with a your e-mail at edlund60014 lives by yahoo com. the
assumption is that you also have office 2007 for the excel stuff.
al
 

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