How to set an element state by clicking on a Visio Button

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Hello,

I’d like to have a stop and a start button on my Visio page to set the state of an element.

How is it possible?

Thanks.

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 8th August 2023

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Hi Yvon

If you link a shape to an element, you are able to right click the shape in Cube and you should have the same context menu as you’d have when right-clicking the element itself in the surveyor. That should allow you to set the state of the element.

Another approach could be with an automation script. Link your button shape to a script that has the element name and the new state as script parameters. The script should then contain the logic to set the element state accordingly.

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 8th August 2023
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Hi Yvon,

You’ll have to link your shape to an automation script that starts or stops the element.

You can link the shape to a script using the “Execute” shape data property.

You can start (or stop) an element in automation using the Element.Start() (or Element.Stop()) method.

Ive Herreman [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Posted new comment 27th July 2023
Yvon Masson commented

Thanks Ive.

Would you have an example of such script?
Ive Herreman [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented

Hi Yvon,

I’ve added a screenshot in the original answer.