Visio 2002 web page and Sharepoint

[al]

Hello!

I have a Visio drawing that is get custom properties data from
Sharepoint list (sharepoint server 2007). I would like to publish the
drawing as a web page, and per my understanding is that the web page
is 'static'. If some one updates / enters values in the sharepoint
list, I would have to open the drawing in visio client, refresh the
data and then save it again (and publish it to sharepoint) as a web
page.

Is there any way to create a scheduled refresh of the webpage from the
sharepoint list, say every 4 hours? TIA.

 

[Brett Newman]

Hi,
This is one of those things that can definitely be done with custom
code and it's not trivial to explain how to do that in a forum post
even for an experienced programmer.
For example, we developed a SharePoint app for Microsoft to use
internally that contained a "Draw in Visio" button so that when the
SharePoint data changes, the user can generate a new diagram. In that
case, it opened in Visio but with additional code it could just as
well be generated at a specified time interval and Saved as Web to
replace the previous files. That would accomplish what you describe.

I wish I could be more helpful from an end user perspective but at
least you know it can be done.

Brett

 

[al]

Thanks Brett! I was thinking that would be the case but was hoping for
a built-in functionality given they are Microsoft products.I will dig
into details on how to best resolve this and until then it is going to
be a manual process.