Visio 2010 - break and heal

[philippe c]

I suppose it will be a chapter in "Developing Microsoft Visio 2010
Solutions", but can someone allready tell me how to make shapes (or
connectors) that break and heal. Now, in 2010, only ? the flowchart shapes
do it.
It would be great for my electrical schemas.

 

[Chris Roth [Visio MVP]]

Hi Philippe,

It's a combination of setting the connectors to be splittable and shapes to
cause splitting.

For connectors:

Shape Layout.ShapeSplittable cell = 1
(visSLOSplittableNone = 0, visSLOSplittableAllow = 1)

For boxes:

Shape Layout.ShapeSplit cell = 1
(visSLOSplitNone = 0, visSLOSplitAllow = 1)

This is in Visio 2007, by the way.

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[philippe c]

Thank you Chris,

I'll try it first thing this evening.
Indeed a very well hidden feature.
It is not mentioned in "What's new in Visio 2007"
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/HA100740561033.aspx

 

[philippe c]

Strange,
why were the Visio programmers at the last Visio Conference in Redmond so
proud about it when they showed this feature ? If it was allready available
in Visio 2007.

 

[philippe c]

I must have confounded with the automatic layout after breaking (= splitting ?)
There is also Tools Options General "Enable connector splitting".

The Help says :

Enable connector splitting

When you place a shape on the line of a connector, it splits and each piece
becomes a separate connector glued to the shape. Not all drawing types
support connector splitting.