Visio Data Graphics Behavior Between Objects and Tabs

[Mark]

Thanks in Advance.

I am using MS Visio Professional 2007 with MS Excel 2003 to create
networking and rack equipment diagrams. We have a spreadsheet with
about 40 objects and 50 fields of data which we are linking to Visio.
When I create multiple tabs and want one graphic to use four
selections for data graphics ( i.e. Network Name, Model, CPU, &
Memory) and then attempt to get a different tab to use a different
four selections (Network Name, Owner, Role, & IP Address), that
changes the first tab.

Is there some way that I can firewall the choices between data
graphics between tabs (between objects would be even better)?

I also notice that in the rack graphics that it would be useful to
alternate the data graphic labels on both left and right sides, yet I
cannot. Am I missing something here?

Mark Simmerman
Napa, CA

 

[Al Edlund]

There's a whole series of entries over here on using data graphics
http://blogs.msdn.com/visio/

and of course David Parker has written on the subject as well

http://www.visualizinginformation.com/

al