Is there a placeholder to link a shape to the parent view (similar to [this view] )?
It seems that the shape data “View” doesn’t support property, so how is it possible to make a generic visual overview if the view name/ID must be hard-coded?
Hi Bernard,
I have no issues getting the property placeholder to work with a shape linked to a view.
- On the child view, create a property ‘ParentView’ (or similar), with the name of its parent view
- On the Visio drawing assigned to the child view, add shape data with label ‘View’ and value ‘[property:ParentView]’
- Verify that the shape correctly links to the parent view
As Jens mentioned, a feature which takes care of this dynamically would be the way to go in the future, but the method above should allow you to implement this for the time being.
Hi Bernard,
As far as I know this is not supported by default.
One way to get this info is to execute an automation script when the visual page is loaded and send back a sessions variable. Note that I don’t recommend this approach for all your visuals, only in exceptional cases (short term solution).
Long term solution should be a new feature that supports this.
is there already a feature suggestion to achieve this?
Happy to add a vote if so