show/hide connections

[jarlen]

I'm currently building a kind of flow chart for applications, but it really
gets to be a lot of connections on top of each other. Is it possible to make
all connections invisible as default, and then when I choose a figure, make
all it's connections (or a group of connections specified by me) visible,
untill I "uncheck" the figure?

 

[Paul Herber]

I'm currently building a kind of flow chart for applications, but it really
gets to be a lot of connections on top of each other. Is it possible to make
all connections invisible as default, and then when I choose a figure, make
all it's connections (or a group of connections specified by me) visible,
untill I "uncheck" the figure?

Connections points can only be made visible/invisible on a per drawing
basis.
Nice idea though to be able to turn visibility on/off on per page or
per shape.

 

[jarlen]

Connections points can only be made visible/invisible on a per drawing
basis.
Nice idea though to be able to turn visibility on/off on per page or
per shape.

I found this link:
http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=msoffice&seqNum=136
saying:
"You can show or hide elements with a button or some other interactive
means. For example, in a flowchart that's very complex, you can hide every
connection except the one that's currently significant"
Which really sound a lot like what I need, but it gives no means of how to
actually do, just that it's possible.
Can't that be done?
Further down the road I might like to make it even more advanced, like,
keeping the list of connections in an external document of some kind, so that
I can update the connections in Visio and have the update replicated to an
external file (or the other way around at least). Is that too advanced a
feature for Visio? I see a lot of how 2007 makes it easier to integrate
external data, so it seems weird if it's not possible.

 

[Paul Herber]

I found this link:
http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=msoffice&seqNum=136
saying:
"You can show or hide elements with a button or some other interactive
means. For example, in a flowchart that's very complex, you can hide every
connection except the one that's currently significant"
Which really sound a lot like what I need, but it gives no means of how to
actually do, just that it's possible.
Can't that be done?
Further down the road I might like to make it even more advanced, like,
keeping the list of connections in an external document of some kind, so that
I can update the connections in Visio and have the update replicated to an
external file (or the other way around at least). Is that too advanced a
feature for Visio? I see a lot of how 2007 makes it easier to integrate
external data, so it seems weird if it's not possible.

Sorry, I misread your message, I'm talking about connection points,
not connections.

 

[David Parker]

I think the article is referring to toggling the visibility of layers. Try
my blog at
http://bvisual.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!3350D61BC93733A9!180.entry