Filtering Child Shapes in Visio

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Hi All,

We are trying to use child shapes in visio to display a shape based on a table row, which works fine, however we want to take it a step further and do some filtering so shapes are only shown if a specific condition is met within a row.

This is what we have so far:

And for example I want to filter if Pre Live Task Status is Running in the below:

Can you use a simple show/hide or does it need to be done in ChildrenFilter? Or is it just not possible?

Thanks

Ryan

Michiel Vanthuyne [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Answered question

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Hi Ryan, I think a ChildrenFilter should work fine for this application. Did you try that already?

Michiel Vanthuyne [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Posted new comment
Ryan Hepworth [DevOps Advocate] commented

Hi Michiel,

I wasn’t sure if it was possible using children filter. Do you know the syntax to reference a table parameter? I can’t find it in the ChildrenFilter documentation
Michiel Vanthuyne [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented

Hi Ryan,

I had the different filter types confused there for a moment. What you need is the SubscriptionFilter.
The general syntax is:
value=Pid == X

So in your case this will be:
value=[PreLiveStatusPid] == Running

Replace the [PreLiveStatusPid] with the column parameter id of the pre-live status.
Take note of the spaces in the syntax: there are no spaces in "value=pid", but the double equality sign requires a single space before and after.