Link org chart shapes to the employee email

Hi,

we have an org charts which is linked to excel data. one of the columns is mail of the employee and we want to set that when user click the shape of the employee on the org chart - it opens mail to that employee (=takes the value of the mail column).

how to do

June 17th, 2015 8:40am

Hi keren,

Based on your description, my understanding is when you select the shape of employee, you send an email to the employee with fixed content. Or you just want to open the email and with the email address of employee, and you can custom content.

For the first situation, there are no click events in Visio, its hard to get your result even use Macro code.

For the second situation, you can add a hyperlink to the shape manually and in the address box, type mailto:email address, for example: mailto:sample@microsoft.com

But if your employees are huge numbers, I suggest you post your issue to MSDN forum to ask for helping.

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?category=visio2010&filter=alltypes&sort=lastpostdesc

Maybe you can get your result by using code.

Hope its helpful.

Regards,

George Zhao
TechNet Community Support

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June 18th, 2015 3:53am

For a start; George is incorrect there are click events (specifically the dblclick event which can be gotten through the shapesheet). David Parker did a blog post with a HowTo on using mailto with visio shapes.

http://blog.bvisual.net/2009/05/22/using-mailto-protocol-in-visio-shapes/

al edlund

June 18th, 2015 10:07am

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