16 posts from: Eric Rockey
Do You Share Diagrams On A Server?
(Indexed 2007-01-26):
Do you ever put Visio diagrams on a SharePoint site, Web site, or file server so you can easily share them with others? Are you making use of Visio 2007s Data Link and Data Graphics features? If so, the Visio Product Planning department would like to talk to you! We are currently conducting research to understand how our customers would like to share diagrams inside their organizations. If you think you can help us with this area (and would like to help chart Visios future), simply contact us.[I...(truncated)...
DXF, DWG & Visio
(Indexed 2007-01-15):
Hey! Do you ever open, save or use AutoCAD files (DXF/DWG) with Visio? If so, the Visio product team would like to talk to you. Please drop us a line, and well be in touch.[Image]
A LOT more information on creating custom data graphics
(Indexed 2006-09-12):
We keep on hearing requests for more details on how to create your own data graphics. Bill Morein's post gave you the basics, and now Mark Nelson on the Visio PM team has written a much more detailed article on this topic (and data graphics in general) and posted it up on MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468596.aspx . This should give you everything you need to roll your own text, icon set or data bar callouts. Looking forward to seeing some of the new ones that folks come up ...(truncated)...
Everything you wanted to know about Themes and shapes
(Indexed 2006-08-30):
Tim Davenport, a Visio Program Manager on my team, has written an MSDN article that gives a ton of great information about our new themes feature and in particular, how to design Visio shapes that work well with themes. Check it out here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa445858.aspx [Image]
Announcing the Visio Partner Council
(Indexed 2006-07-20):
Hi all,We're currently recruiting for the Visio Partner Council, which is a great way to have an early impact on the next version of the product. Please read below to see if you are interested. For all of you RSS aggregators, forgive the spam if you're getting this on the other Visio blogs too - we wanted to make sure that everyone who's interested in Visio saw it.Thanks,Eric---We're always looking for ways to better understand the needs and concerns of Visio customers. To that end, one of the...(truncated)...
Announcing the Visio Customer Council
(Indexed 2006-07-20):
Hi all,We're currently recruiting for the Visio Customer Council, which is a great way to have an early impact on the next version of the product. Please read below to see if you are interested. For all of you RSS aggregators, forgive the spam if you're getting this on the other Visio blogs too - we wanted to make sure that everyone who's interested in Visio saw it.Thanks,Eric---We're always looking for ways to better understand the needs and concerns of Visio customers. To that end, one of th...(truncated)...
Creating custom data graphics
(Indexed 2006-06-16):
One of the things we keep hearing from customers is a desire to make their own Data Graphics instead of using the ones we provide with Visio 2007. This is completely possible -- we designed Data Graphics to be extensible. Bill Morein, a fellow Visio blogger on my team, has posted some initial information on how to do this at http://blogs.msdn.com/wmorein/ . We're working on complete documentation for how to do this and will publish that in the future. But this should get you started for now...(truncated)...
Now everybody can try out Visio 2007
(Indexed 2006-05-26):
Theres been a lot going on this week that I wanted to let you know about. First of all, of course, Office 2007 Beta 2 (including Visio) has been released and is publicly available, which means that everyone can download and try out this huge release. Beta 2 looks good across the board and Visio in particular is ready to have its tires kicked. Check it out: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/default.mspxWeve also released a Beta 2 version of the Visio 2007 SDK. This includes new wizards...(truncated)...
Themes: Great Results in a few clicks
(Indexed 2006-05-10):
Hi, Im back again from another round of traveling (thanks for the messages from people wondering where I was!) and Ive still got more new features to tell you about in Visio 2007. This week Im going to spend some time talking about the new Themes feature and some of the other improvements to how diagrams are formatting that weve been working on.One of the things that really struck me when we went out talking to customers during the planning phase of Visio 2007 was how many Visio diagrams are be...(truncated)...
PivotDiagrams, part 1
(Indexed 2006-02-25):
Hey, what's up? I'm back from a little break after the Visio Partner Conference. Today I'm going to talk about the last of the major data features we are doing in Visio 12: PivotDiagrams. You can think of PivotDiagrams as similar to PivotTables in Excel. They allow you to work with data where you want to see groups and subtotals. The difference, of course, is that a PivotDiagram does this visually as a diagram:[Image]They are great when you need to communicate the key pieces of information...(truncated)...
Visio Conference Recap
(Indexed 2006-01-24):
Wow, what a couple of days it's been at the Visio Partner Conference! The level of excitement has been fantastic, and the new data features have been received very well. Steve Ballmer started things off with the typical Ballmer enthusiasm Thursday morning with a joint Visio and Project Keynote. He featured a great demo from a partner called INS that is working on a Sarbanes-Oxley compliance solution. It deeply integrated Visio 12 and SharePoint and took advantage of our new data capabilities...(truncated)...
Visio Partner Conference this week!
(Indexed 2006-01-16):
It's been a busy week for us here on the Visio team. We're getting ready to host the first Visio Partner Conference in over 4 years this coming Thursday and Friday in Seattle. We have over 230 partners and other Visio fans (sold out!) coming to get an in-depth look at what's new in Visio 12. As you can imagine, we're really excited to be able to show what Visio 12 can do, and also to get feedback from everyone on what they think. I'll be updating my blog with news and announcements from the ...(truncated)...
A brief detour from data: AutoConnect
(Indexed 2006-01-07):
I thought I'd start off the New Year with a little break from the data features in Visio 12, and talk about one of the other areas we've been working on in the product as well. We are spending a lot of time on data, but are doing plenty of other features too! One of the things I hear from customers is that, while Visio allows them to draw things that they wouldn't have been able to create before, it's still a bit more complicated to use than it needs to be. Even something as basic as how you ...(truncated)...
Data Graphics: visualizing data on your diagram
(Indexed 2005-12-14):
Last week I talked about connecting a Visio diagram to data, but we hadn't gone over how to actually display the data on the diagram itself. That's where data graphics comes in. Data graphics is a new technology we are introducing in Visio 12 that provides a variety of ways of showing data on top of shapes. It's really the key to all of the different things we are doing with data in Visio 12. Let's look at a few quick examples of shapes with data graphics applied to them:[Image]Data graphics...(truncated)...
Data Link: getting data into your shapes
(Indexed 2005-12-06):
Okay, let's dig into some of the scenarios around integrating data with Visio diagrams that I mentioned last week. One of the major trends right now in the enterprise is the focus on process improvement. Companies can realize huge gains in quality and profitability by visualizing their business processes, analysing them for inefficiencies, and targeting improvements to the crucial steps in the process. This is an area where Visio really shines. We've added some additional templates in Visio ...(truncated)...
Hello and welcome
(Indexed 2005-11-19):
Hi everyone, I'm the Lead Program Manager for the Visio team and I'm going to be talking about the new features we've been working on for Visio 12. I am also looking forward to hearing from you about your Visio thoughts. A little bit about me: this is the first release of Visio that I have worked on and I'm pretty excited about it (I think you will be too once we start getting into some of the features). Previously, I was on the InfoPath team for the 2003 version of that product, and Ive als...(truncated)...