Planning your own solutions
By now, you should be eager to explore the out of the box structured diagram functionality, and perhaps be considering how to create validation rules for your own business. In doing so, I would advise that you always look to build upon what Visio provides—do not try to replicate it! I believe that trying to create your own Shape Data objects, or your own line routing algorithms, for example, is ultimately a waste of time as they will lead you down some dead-ends, some of which still exist within the boxed Visio product. For example, the following three legacy diagram templates in Visio have their own limitations. They are:
- The Software and Database|UML Model Diagram solution within Visio is essentially a closed third-party ...
Get Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
