The foundations of structured diagrams
A structured diagram is a set of logical relationships between items, where these relationships provide visual organization or describe special interaction behaviors between them.
The Microsoft Visio team analyzed the requirements for adding structure to diagrams, and came up with a number of features that needed to be added to the Visio product to achieve this:
- Container Management: The ability to add labeled boxes around shapes to visually organize them
- Callout Management: The ability to associate callouts with shapes to display notes
- List Management: To provide order to shapes within a container
- Validation API: The ability to test the business logic of a diagram
- Connectivity API: The ability to create, remove, ...
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