Hi,
There are other tools that enable a user to edit traditional Visio drawings; however, is it possible to edit Visio drawings used as visual overviews in DataMiner, for example using the Skyline stencils and Advanced Editing options, with these other tools?
Thank you for your help.
No, we currently only have support for Microsoft Visio.
Please see the following question for a detailed explanation: https://community.dataminer.services/question/are-there-plans-to-edit-visio-drawings-without-visio-application-installed/?hilite=%27edit%27%2C%27visio%27
Note that it is possible to upload existing Visual Overviews (which are regular Visio files that can include stencils) to other tools and manipulate them there. However, there is no integration for this in the DataMiner software.
The 'Advanced Editing' panel is specifically designed for Microsoft Visio. This panel is constructed in DataMiner Cube and is pushed to the Visio application using COM.
Most of the Visio alternatives I have seen are limited to diagram/flowchart drawing, while Visio has a lot more possibilities, and is highly extensible with new shapes. You can find a lot of stencils around the web, while some of the alternatives are limited to an included set of shapes.
Next to that, some of the alternatives only allow creating a 'static' diagram, and have poor or no support for shape data. As all of the configuration for use in DataMiner is done using shape data, such alternatives cannot be used to create or edit drawings for use in DataMiner.
Thank you Sebastiaan, cheers!