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SP2010 Workflow Template Validation Rules and limitations of the Visio-driven workflow model

By On July 19, 2010 · 2 Comments

I have been looking into the new SP 2010 Workflow Template that comes with Visio 2010 Premium with the intention of building complex workflows entirely within Visio and then exporting to SP Designer for implementation.

Sound easy? Well everything works fine if you plan to use the default shapes provided by Visio (and map to SP [...]

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Filtering Lists based on shape selection using Visio Web Access

By On July 16, 2010 · 3 Comments

I’ve been looking into the options of using Visio Web Access to link Visio objects to SharePoint data. Now that its possible to capture shape data and use it to filter web parts there is a an opportunity to supplement Visio diagrams with contextually relevant information.

In my example I want to show how it [...]

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Visio Web Access in SP2010 – In-browser view of Visio diagrams with nice Silverlight UI

By On July 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment

SharePoint 2010 brings to us some really nice Office web apps that allow in-browser rendering (and editing)  of Office 2007/10 formatted documents and I took a brief look at Word and its co-authoring functionality last year.

This time I’d like to demonstrate Visio Web Access and its nice Silverlight UI that includes features like [...]

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Splitting large SP2010 workflows in Visio 2010

By On July 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Just a short post on how to approach designing and implementing large or complex workflows using the SharePoint 2010 workflow template in Visio 2010 Premium.

As you probably have heard Visio allows us to use this template to model our SharePoint workflows in Visio with a new shape set and then export it directly(as a zipped [...]

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How the SharePoint 2010 Workflow Visio Template Shapes translate to SP Designer workflow steps

By On July 1, 2010 · 6 Comments

I’ve been working on designing a comprehensive workflow for a new application with the SharePoint 2010 workflow template for Visio 2010 Premium. I’ve already modeled the process flow in UML and looking to design it with the template in order to keep it maintainable and customizable moving forward. I googled around and there isn’t a lot of content in [...]

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Using Visio Shape Reports to export detail from your diagrams

By On May 27, 2010 · 8 Comments

Ran cross another handy feature of Visio – Shape Reports!

If you’re like me and love manipulating data in Excel to clean up and use elsewhere, rather than doing it the long, slow and manual way, then you will probably like to explore this feature of Visio.

I recently created a state chart and I [...]

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SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Visio 2010 – A seamless integration!

By On May 26, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I have been doing some analysis work on a new SharePoint 2010 implementation and have wandered across the new SharePoint workflow template in Visio 2010. It’s an area I briefly touched last year on the 2010 Beta but didn’t get much hands on time with.

I’ve had a quick play with the feature set and [...]

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Adding External Data to Visio 2010 Models – An example using State Chart’s in Visio 2010

By On May 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Having recently started a new position and having to dust off the UML skill set, I’ve found a useful feature of Visio that I wanted to share. No doubt has been covered in detail before but perhaps not for this specific example.

I’ve been working on state charts for a system re-development and had a [...]

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