Maintaining off-document connectivity   

I'm an intern working on a project for a company that wishes to split their 
process flows into separate but cross-linked software-specific and 
hardware-specific documents so that the main document does not require 
updating as often.  The intent is to have this functional as a group of Visio 
documents, sorted by application.

I am using Visio 2003 Professional SP1 on Windows XP.  I am using 
RUNADDONWARGS("OPC","/CMD=4"), and I have also set the hyperlinks to relative 
path.   The links do work when the absolute path is used.  I have tried this 
both locally and on a network drive.

Using one of my links as an example, the main document is in folder "Main\" 
and the other document I wish to link to is 
"Main\Fleet\Process\Software\Confirm RWT.vsd".  I started by navigating to 
the files normally in the OPC dialog and then changing the hyperlink address 
field and User.OPCDDocID field to "Fleet\Process\Software\Confirm RWT.vsd"  
This did not work, so I tried "..\Fleet\Process\Software\Confirm RWT.vsd" and 
"\Fleet\Process\Software\Confirm RWT.vsd", all to no avail.

What do I need to do to get this working?

date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:54:00 -0700   author:   Scott Clarke Scott

Re: Maintaining off-document connectivity   

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:54:00 -0700, Scott Clarke <Scott
Clarke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I'm an intern working on a project for a company that wishes to split their 
>process flows into separate but cross-linked software-specific and 
>hardware-specific documents so that the main document does not require 
>updating as often.  The intent is to have this functional as a group of Visio 
>documents, sorted by application.
>
>I am using Visio 2003 Professional SP1 on Windows XP.  I am using 
>RUNADDONWARGS("OPC","/CMD=4"), and I have also set the hyperlinks to relative 
>path.   The links do work when the absolute path is used.  I have tried this 
>both locally and on a network drive.
>
>Using one of my links as an example, the main document is in folder "Main\" 
>and the other document I wish to link to is 
>"Main\Fleet\Process\Software\Confirm RWT.vsd".  I started by navigating to 
>the files normally in the OPC dialog and then changing the hyperlink address 
>field and User.OPCDDocID field to "Fleet\Process\Software\Confirm RWT.vsd"  
>This did not work, so I tried "..\Fleet\Process\Software\Confirm RWT.vsd" and 
>"\Fleet\Process\Software\Confirm RWT.vsd", all to no avail.
>
>What do I need to do to get this working?

Does it not work with the full relative path
"Main\Fleet\Process\Software\Confirm RWT.vsd" ?


-- 
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. 
SSADM for Visio          http://www.saadm.sandrila.co.uk/

date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:10:18 +0100   author:   Paul Herber

Re: Maintaining off-document connectivity   

No, it still can't find it.



"Paul Herber" wrote:
 
> Does it not work with the full relative path
> "Main\Fleet\Process\Software\Confirm RWT.vsd" ?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. 
> SSADM for Visio          http://www.saadm.sandrila.co.uk/
>

date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 09:25:00 -0700   author:   Scott Clarke

RE: Maintaining off-document connectivity   

Just in case anyone wants closure on this, I managed to contact a member of 
the Visio team and he informed me that the off-page connector feature does 
not support relative links.

date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 07:49:02 -0700   author:   Scott Clarke Scott

Re: Maintaining off-document connectivity   

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 07:49:02 -0700, Scott Clarke <Scott
Clarke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Just in case anyone wants closure on this, I managed to contact a member of 
>the Visio team and he informed me that the off-page connector feature does 
>not support relative links.

What about ordinary hyperlinks? They can do relative links.


-- 
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. 
Electrical for Visio          http://www.electrical.sandrila.co.uk/

date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:35:02 +0100   author:   Paul Herber

Re: Maintaining off-document connectivity   

The ordinary hyperlink is the solution I have been using.

When editing the files, I use a batch file to subst their container folder 
to Q:, then when I save it, I run a VBA script to make the hyperlinks 
generated relative by replacing "Q:\" with the appropriate number of "..\" s  
That way it's easy to navigate both for editing and viewing.  I added a 
SendKeys("{F5}") under Document_DocumentOpened for all the documents, as well 
as a few commands to close the document linking to it.  So far the response 
has been positive.

"Paul Herber" wrote:
> What about ordinary hyperlinks? They can do relative links.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. 
> Electrical for Visio          http://www.electrical.sandrila.co.uk/
>

date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:42:10 -0700   author:   Scott Clarke