Re: Ideas for Screen Map in Visio?

Subject: Re: Ideas for Screen Map in Visio?
From: Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:53:11 -0700 (PDT)

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "metadata" in
this case. Visio has the capability to add properties
to each object on the diagram, in the form of
name:value pairs. Let's say you have a diagram shape
that represents a list box. You could use the Custom
Properties wizard to add a property named
"Selections," and then under that property label you
could add a list of all the things that can be
selected in that list box.

Visio will save those diagrams in HTML. It builds a
web site that shows GIFs made from each page in the
Visio file. Each page in the Visio file is a separate
web page. Each object in each of those GIFs can be
clicked on to display the associated properties, and
links between pages in the Visio file (off-page
references) are made into hyperlinks between pages in
the end result web site.


--- Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au> wrote:

> I'm using Visio to make a map of all the screens in
> a software
> application. The images are scaled down but (just)
> readable, and show
> the links between screens, tabs within screens,
> links to external
> applications, and so on.
>
> This project has parallel development streams so
> there are people and
> teams working on overlapping parts of the
> application. The map will be
> used by the developers, designers, system
> architects, BAs, user reps,
> testers, etc. The plan is to have a printed version
> on several A0 sheets
> stuck up on the wall of a 'war room', and perhaps an
> online version in
> Sharepoint.
>
> For now the map is just a static display of how each
> screen looks in the
> latest version. It could be nice to have some
> metadata for each screen
> and perhaps links to each unique version of the
> screen in different
> releases--e.g. how it looked when it was first added
> in R6, the updated
> version in R8 and the latest prototype planned for
> R10.
>
>
> Do you have any other ideas for useful information
> or functions I could
> add to the map? Of course I'm asking the people
> who'll be using it, but
> I wanted to get your suggestions too. I know some of
> you have done
> 'active diagrams' like this.
>
> Thanks, Stuart
>
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