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VisioExporter 5.0.1.29914
Jun 30th, 2009 at 4:01am
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Hi

Do we have any updated version of VisioExporter.
I am using the one with version:5.0.1.29914.

I have problems with this:

1. Shapes are not exported in correct size
2. Lanes not exported
3. Connectors are not exported
  
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Re: VisioExporter 5.0.1.29914
Reply #1 - Jun 30th, 2009 at 6:58am
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Hi,

I suppose we might have updated it since v5.0.1, but it doesn't support exporting the background lanes. You could add some temporary rectangular nodes before exporting to mimic the grid. Could you email us a diagram xml file that shows 1&3?

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Re: VisioExporter 5.0.1.29914
Reply #2 - Jul 1st, 2009 at 12:13am
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Hi Stoyo

Thanks for the reply.

I am unable to generate the XML file due to some serialzation issues. Guess something that I add to the diagram object collection is not serializable.

BTW,

1. do we have any documentation around this Visio export topic? The Dev Guide seems to be very little in this matter?

2. I am trying to view the diagram using Visio Viewer, is there anything that I need to do?

3. Diagram object unable to "savetoxml" would be an issue for VisioExporter?

4. Is there any latest updated version of that dll which I can do this further excercise?

Thank you, in the mean time will sort out the serialization issue.

How attach image to this?
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Re: VisioExporter 5.0.1.29914
Reply #3 - Jul 1st, 2009 at 5:53am
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Hi,

Have you implemented your own node types, or just modified the builtin types?

Visio Viewer is not supported. The exporter saves just the Visio shape IDs in the vdx files, and expects Visio will load them from its shape stencils. Visio Viewer does not have the shape definitions, but expects the vdx files to contains some GEOM elements that fully describe the shape geometry, which is not exported at this time.

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Re: VisioExporter 5.0.1.29914
Reply #4 - Aug 20th, 2009 at 2:09am
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Hi,

I am back to this project again. Yes Visio export works great and using Ms-Visio to view them. As you mentioned right, I do not see the lanes. But connectors and shapes are exported fine.

Quick question:

1. Is it possible to add some header & footer to the exported diagram?
  
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Reply #5 - Aug 20th, 2009 at 8:42am
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Hi,

You could clone the diagram, add header and footer to the clone and export it. E.g. call diagram2.LoadFromString(diagram.SaveToString()), add ShapeNodes near diagram2.Bounds.Top and diagram2.Bounds.Bottom to display the header and footer text, and export diagram2.

I hope that helps,
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Re: VisioExporter 5.0.1.29914
Reply #6 - Aug 20th, 2009 at 10:44am
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Hi,

Thank you for your quick. I will try this and let you know the result.

a Question about Printing with Mindfusion:

1. Is it possible to show the Mindfusion printpreview output window as MDI child window? I mean we are using a tab to show each window in the application. is this possible to even with old version that we are using?

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Reply #7 - Aug 20th, 2009 at 1:20pm
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You could add a PrintPreviewControl to your own child MDI form, and set its Document property to the result of diagramView.CreatePrintDocument().

I hope that helps,
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Reply #8 - Sep 20th, 2010 at 11:02am
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Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but we've just added the Visio export code to our app and are hitting the same problem with the lanes not exporting. In our case we are using the new Swim Lanes in the 5.4 beta.

Was this ever looked at and are there any plans to add features to allow exporting of lanes?

Visio has a shape for lanes called the 'Functional Band' is there anyway that could be added into the export routine?

Any help much appreciated.
  
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Reply #9 - Sep 20th, 2010 at 1:11pm
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Hi,

We'll try to implement exporting lanes as Visio 'Functional Bands' for the next release. For the time being you'll still have to add temporary nodes to represent the lanes.

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Re: VisioExporter 5.0.1.29914
Reply #10 - Sep 20th, 2010 at 1:13pm
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Hi Stoyan

That's great, many thanks.  When you say next release do you mean 5.5 or is there likely to be an interim release?

Thanks

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Reply #11 - Sep 20th, 2010 at 4:54pm
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Hi Tom,

I mean whatever version number is coming next, can't say if we'll call it major or minor update. We have a few long-term projects developing more complex features, and if we complete one in the next month or so, we'll call it v5.5 8)

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Re: VisioExporter 5.0.1.29914
Reply #12 - Sep 20th, 2010 at 4:56pm
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Thanks Stoyan, we'll be looking forward to the next release  Cheesy
  
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