I am creating a visio where a child shape is created for every element within a Service.
Within each of those child shapes I am am then trying to display another child shape for each row of a specific table from that element.
Tried many variations but without success. Are nested child shapes possible and if so would anyone have an example they can share?
Hi Chris, most likely you have forgotten to place some option on your child shape. I have created a small example that does work.
Group 1
Children = Element
Group 2 (child of Group 1)
ChildType = Element
Group 3 (child of Group 2)
Children = Row
ChildrenSource = [this elementid]/300
Options = ForcePropertyFromParent
Group 4 (child of Group 3)
ChildType = Row
ForcePropertyFromParent will force the [this elementid] placeholder link to the context of Group 2, i.e. each correct Element.
Nested child shapes are possible and you can nest as many times as you want.
It’s not possible yet to add files to questions on Dojo, but my main guess is that you need the ‘NoCopyElementProperty’ option on the shape containing your nested children shape. If this does not work, please let me know and i’ll have a look at your setup.