Using Visio and Visio Services - Business Intelligence in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 - page 279

Saving as a website
In the section that follows this one, you will learn about a technique for creating dynamically updated
websites that was introduced in Visio 2010. However, long before that capability existed, Visio offered
an option to create a static website from a Visio diagram, and that feature is still useful today. It
doesn't offer viewer commenting and automatic updates when the underlying diagram changes, but
it does offer read-only viewing of Visio diagrams for people who don't have Visio.

When you save a diagram as a website, the webpages can be viewed with nothing more than
Microsoft Internet Explorer. An ActiveX control that runs in Internet Explorer provides helpful naviga-
tion features, shape data visibility, and a full-text search option. All hyperlinks in a Visio diagram—
links to other pages in the same or a different Visio diagram; links to external documents and web
pages; and links to email addresses—continue to work in the browser rendering of the diagram.

In Figure 9-11, you see a full-screen view of a Visio-generated webpage. The original diagram was
created with a Visio add-in called TaskMap ( www.TaskMap.com ) that was designed to simplify the
documentation and communication of process information across an organization.

TaskMap Professional makes heavy use of data graphics to present important business data, and
you can see that the graphics do appear in the web view in Figure 9-11. For example, the numbers
in the yellow triangles on some tasks relate to specific risks in the organization's risk management
system. In a similar manner, the green diamonds call out controls that mitigate the identified risks.
Other icons convey additional business data and are described in the legend in the upper-right corner
of the page.

The navigation section on the left side of the Visio-generated webpage includes four panes:

Go To pane This is a drop-down table of contents from which users can select any page in a
diagram and then click the adjacent arrow to view that page.

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Pan and Zoom pane In this pane, a user can draw a rectangle or click the zoom controls to
indicate how much of the page, and which section, should be displayed in the viewing pane.

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Details pane

This pane displays the data for a shape when users Ctrl+click that shape.

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Search pane The Search pane shows a hyperlinked list of search results. Clicking a link
causes an orange arrow to point to the search result on the page (look in the lower-third of
Figure 9-11 for the line pointing to the link titled “Pricing override approved” that corresponds
to the marked search result).

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