web interfaces...

[randy]

I have just tried to save a visio drawing as "web". The result is quite
impressive - the zooming facility and the display of properties when
"mousing over".

I would like to use this kind of web-interface on an intranet - but would
eventually like to make modifications... like display data fields on the web
page.

How do I do that...?

What kind of programming tool can I use?

And what is the "language" - it look like some kind of HTML and XML - but is
there a tool for working in that?

And how do I interface values from Excel to my web page (data change in the
Excel - and changes should be updated on the web)

Suggestions are welcome. Thanks

 

[David Parker]

Are you using Visio 2002?
If so, try save as web in 2003 ... you'll be even more impressed!

 

[Michael Rhoadarmer]

This is Microsoft we're talking about. It would have to be one of their products
1. Active X
2. Frontpage
3. Some form or .Net or VB for the web.

Michael
I have just tried to save a visio drawing as "web". The result is quite
impressive - the zooming facility and the display of properties when
"mousing over".

I would like to use this kind of web-interface on an intranet - but would
eventually like to make modifications... like display data fields on the web
page.

How do I do that...?

What kind of programming tool can I use?

And what is the "language" - it look like some kind of HTML and XML - but is
there a tool for working in that?

And how do I interface values from Excel to my web page (data change in the
Excel - and changes should be updated on the web)

Suggestions are welcome. Thanks

 

[Andy [MS]]

Thank you for the positive feedback David! We appreciate hearing things like
this from our customers.

 

[Andy [MS]]

Actually, Visio's Save as Web output is all based on pretty simple stuff.
The properties are stored in an xml file, and all the scripting is done in
JScript on the client side.

You can modify the web pages to do anything you want. Visual Studio 7.x has
a good interface for working with html/xml files.

 

[RC]

Hi,

Great features. Does anyone have any sample code for editing the HTML/XML
output to do something simple such as changing the shape color when clicking
the shape in a browser?

Much thanks
TJ