Hi Felix,

You’re definitely on the right track. The behavior you’re seeing comes down to how context is handled in Visio shapes versus property placeholders.

When you use things like Shape Data linked to Objects (e.g. View, Element, etc.), you are effectively changing the context of that shape and all underlying subshapes.

However, property placeholders behave a bit differently:

• By default, [property:...] resolves against the object the Visio (or subview) is linked to (ref docs: [property:PropertyName])
• This is independent from the shape context you may have overridden with Shape Data
• You can explicitly override this behavior for property placeholders only

In your case, you want the property (Short Name) from the parent Location view, not from the current (child) context.

To achieve that, add this Shape Data field on the inner shape:

• Name: Options
• Value: forcePropertyFromParent

This ensures that your placeholder:

ABC_[property:Short Name]

is resolved using the parent context, which is exactly what you need for your nested subview setup.

For completeness, there are a couple of related options:

• ForcePropertyFromParent → use parent context
• forcePropertyFromShape → use the shape’s own context

So the key takeaway:

• Shape Data changes the shape context
• Property placeholders have their own context logic, which you can override when needed

That distinction is what makes this scenario work.

Hope this helps!

Jarno