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Supported/Required VISIO versions: oldest (2013?) vs latest (2019?) vs O365 VISIO Plan 2

Solved3.80K views8th October 2021Microsoft O365 subscriptions visio version
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Alberto De Luca [DevOps Enabler]4.58K 8th October 2021 0 Comments

Hi Dojo,

Please, what is the recommended VISIO version for DataMiner10?
And what is the oldest version still supported? (2013, 2016?)

I understand that when moving to O365 subscription plans, Plan 2 is the one that supports grid, layers and ruler and the only plan that can run as a desktop application:

In terms of one-time purchase, instead, is everything still the same with the Standard version being sufficient and no specific functions for DataMiner from the Professional package?


Pictures from the Microsoft website linked in this other dojo post:
https://community.dataminer.services/question/microsoft-visio-version-update-recommendation/

Thanks

Ben Vandenberghe [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Selected answer as best 8th October 2021

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Bert Vandenberghe [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]8.29K Posted 8th October 2021 0 Comments

Hi Alberto,

We support Visio 2013 and higher. (Actually, older versions are also still supported but then you might not yet have VSDX files available, and then you have to fall back to VDX files)

Newer versions of Visio mainly have new functionality in the editor, like the possibility to edit a group of shapes without ungrouping, which I really like, but it doesn’t really matter for the resulting VSDX file DataMiner consumes.

About the Visio plans, plan 2 is indeed highly recommended. This plan allows you to install the desktop application and then you can leverage the online editing in Cube. Plan 1 only allows the online editor which can only open files from OneDrive, so then you have to manually download and upload files…

Today we still use perpetual licenses for Visio in Skyline, which might change tomorrow, but we also requested a preview at Microsoft for the online version of Visio which will come included in the O365 license to further investigate this option (more info here).

Bert

Ben Vandenberghe [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Selected answer as best 8th October 2021
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Ben Vandenberghe [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]9.06K Posted 8th October 2021 1 Comment

On a side note: MS also announced a web version of Visio, which is standard going to be included in the 365 subscription.  We are eagerly looking forward to see if we can get a chance to evaluate it and see if it can be fit into the picture.  I guess the key requirements would be to be able to provide a design in the vsdx format.  But then there is also the question if we will be able to find a similar workflow like we have today (i.e. being able to click edit in Cube and immediately be able to load it and start editing in Visio and save it there and see the results immediately in a live environment).  There might be options there to do that with vsdx files in the 365 cloud and link it with our dataminer cloud maybe.  But to my knowledge we have not been able yet to get early access to this version of Visio that they announced earlier this year.

Ben Vandenberghe [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Answered question 8th October 2021
Alberto De Luca commented 8th October 2021

Understood – indeed the “Edit Visio” in Cube is currently relying on this local path for a desktop APP:
C:ProgramDataSkylineDataMinerDataMinerCubeOnline Editing

So is it fair to say that O365 VisioPlan1 does not meet the DataMiner requirements?

Is Skyline running more with One-time purchases or have you tested alredy the O365 Plan 2?

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