Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out

Entering Data in Shapes

A shape becomes a data-entry form when you enter values, or data, for its shape data. In the Shape Data window, the label is the name of particular data, and the value is the information you type or select for a given property. The part of the shape data where you type is sometimes referred to as a field, because the shape data work like database fields. For example, in an office plan, you can enter a value for a furniture shape’s Manufacturer property to create a visual record of purchase orders from a given manufacturer. In an organization chart, you can enter telephone numbers to create a visual employee phone list, as Figure 6-9 shows. After you enter values for shape data, you can extract it in a report, as described ...