When viewing a Visio document as a web page (.htm) I want to click or hover over a single shape within the drawing and have a text box appear stating information about the shape. I’m sure this can be done I’m just not sure how.

this was originally posted in the newsgroups

al

I know many people have asked this question, and it has been partially
answered previously. Here is a more complete explanation.

Summary:
You can add the User.visEquivTitle cell to your shape and provide a string
that will display as a tooltip in the web output. The shape must also have
at least one custom property for the tooltip to be visible.

Steps:
1) Select the shape in your drawing that you want to add a web tooltip for
2) Go to Window > Show Shapesheet
3) Go to Insert > Section, check User-defined cells and click OK
4) In the newly created section, click on the row name User.Row_1 to select
the title of the row
5) Type visEquivTitle and press Enter - you should now see
User.visEquivTitle for the row
6) In the Value cell of that row, enter the text you want to display
surrounded by quotes (e.g. "Hello World")
7) If you instead want to display the same tooltip as the Shape ScreenTip
enter =Comment (no quotes)
8) Go to Insert > Section, check Custom properties and click OK
9) You can fill in the custom property Label and Value if you want this
information to be visible
10) If you don't want the custom property to be visible, enter TRUE in the
Invisible cell
11) Close the Shapesheet window and repeat for any other shape you like
12) Choose File > Save as Web Page to create the HTML output

As you can see this is a bit involved. The capability was designed more as
a developer feature than an end user feature. I recommend tying the Shape
ScreenTip to the User cell so that you see the same tooltip in both Visio
and the web output. It should also be possible to use Macro Recorder to
automate these steps. If your shape has a custom property but does not have
the User.visEquivTitle cell, Visio will display the shape's text in a
tooltip instead.

--
Mark Nelson
Office Graphics - Visio
Microsoft Corporation

Mark

I appreciate your reply. However, after following the steps I’m unable to see the title after saving it as a web page.

When I hover over my shape I get the option, “Ctrl + Click to view details”. After performing the task the Details pain pops up in the far left-hand side of the page. In the Details pain is the Shape Name and two boxes: Label and Value.  I was able to figure out how to add information to the Label and Value boxes but I’m unable to get my title to display. I used "Hello World" as a title example.

Below is some of the information I have filled out in my ShapeSheet.

User-defined Cells [Cell name, Value, Prompt] :

User.visEquivTitle  | “Hello World”  |  No Formula

Ser.msvLayoutIncludeSubshapes | TRUE | No Formula

User.visDGDisplayFormat | =USE({009B6D65-004A-0000-8E40-00608CF305B2}) | No Formula

Shape Data [Cell name, Label, Prompt, Type, Format, Value, Sortkey, Invisible, Ask, LangID, Calendar]:

Prop.Row_1 | “” | “” | 0 | “” | 0 | “” |FALSE | FALSE | 1033 | 0

Thanks,

Gabe Geise

You might check John Goldsmith's site and see if he has posted anything.

http://visualsignals.typepad.co.uk/

al

This solution works really well for me (didn't need to use the Insert > Section bit as the sections are already there).  However, both before and after the Screen Tip / Tool Tip contains the text I want and then, underneath that, "Undefined" and then again, underneath that, "Undefined".  Doing Step 10 (enter TRUE in the Invisible cell) gets rid of one of the "Undefined" instances, (not sure which one), but how do I get rid of the other?.  What is it that is "Undefined"?  Tried putting "True" in more "Invisible" cells, but it made no difference.  Tried using the Shape ScreenTip - no difference there either.  Any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: Never mind - found the solution(s) - look at this...

http://visguy.com/vgforum/index.php?topic=1132.0

...and then do this...

http://visualsignals.typepad.co.uk/vislog/2009/04/save-as-web-and-ie8.html

Is there anyway to do this to the Visio Web Part?  I would really like to disable the Control + Click in the web part, but would be happy to just turn off the tool tip that is automatically displayed.

Thank you for any assistance and please let me know if I should open a new forum question for this.