Visio – Hide text and value from ParameterControl

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Hi Dojo,

Is it possible to hide only the text and value from a shape as ParameterControl?

I have the value placed in other zone, but I only want to use the controls from write parameter.

Is it possible?

Thanks!

Daniel Martinez [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 11th May 2023

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Hi Daniel,

Thank you for your feedback! I've made a small example and will add a screenshot to give you a better view of what is possible. You can add a custom title as empty text, but you can also change the 'color' of all text available. By adding a fully transparent color, you should be able to get there. If your parameter is a cell in a table, you will also need the titlesuffix option (see below).

If you are adding the following shape data:

ParameterControlOptions -> CustomTitle:|Lite|CustomTitle:|IncludeWrite|CustomColors:text=#000000FF,text.disabled=#000000FF,text.titlesuffix=#000000FF

Below is what it looks like on the Visual Overview page in DataMiner Cube:

Kind Regards,
Jarno

Daniel Martinez [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 11th May 2023
Daniel Martinez [DevOps Advocate] commented

Hi Jarno, it fits perfectly to my view!

Thanks for your help!
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I see 2 possibilities in Visual Overview:

  • Dirty solution: Put a shape with the color of your background over your parameter control, so as to hide the text and value from it. This is a bit dirty because it requires your background to be the same everywhere (eliminating theming for instance) and the aspect ratio might mess up your visualization if you're not careful.
  • Clean solution: Make a SetVar shape in which you can enter the value to set your parameter to and then add a button that does a parameter set with the variable as input. For more info, see Linking a shape to a SET command
Daniel Martinez [DevOps Advocate] Posted new comment 11th May 2023
Daniel Martinez [DevOps Advocate] commented

Hi Toon,

Thanks for your suggestion!
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Hi Daniel,

Nice to meet you!

You can configure your parametercontrol as Lite and have a custom title configured (see CustomTitle:[Text]). Of course, the custom title in your case is empty, so do not anything behind the ':'.

Kind Regards,
Jarno

Daniel Martinez [DevOps Advocate] Posted new comment 11th May 2023
Daniel Martinez [DevOps Advocate] commented

Hello Jarno,

Nice to meet you too!

I tried your suggestion but it is not what I need. Let me explain better.

I have the ParameterControl displayed at the screenshot. I would like to use in Visio drawing only the write side of that parameter (the box and the bar to select the value), because parameter name and its value are in other shape.

I don’t know if keep the box and bar to select parameter value is allowed, because with your suggestion I hide the parameter name (but no value) and I can’t see the box and bar to configure the parameter.

I tried forcing page scale to only show the bottom side of the parametercontrol shape, but I would like to know if there is any way to display only the box and bar independently of shape size.

Thank you.