Is it possible to have a Visio drawing with several pages and make an automatic slideshow of those pages in Visual Overview based on a pre-defined timer?
We don't have this functionality out of the box in the Visual Overview.
However, we can get to something similar if we get creative!
- With the [DataMinerTime:Format=ss] placeholder we can show the current time. The ss format allows us to only show the seconds. This placeholder updates every second.
- We can use the [RegexReplace] placeholder to replace the seconds with another value. [RegexReplace:[0-1][0-9],[DataMinerTime:Format=ss],Slide01] replaces the seconds with the text 'Slide01' during the first 20 seconds of a minute. During the rest of the minute the seconds are still shown.
- We can remove these seconds during the remaining 40 seconds of the minute by wrapping the placeholder in another [RegexReplace]:
[RegexReplace:^\d+,[RegexReplace:[0-1][0-9],[DataMinerTime:Format=ss],Slide01],] - Now, we simply do this 3 times in a VdxPage shape data and we have our slider.
So yes it's possible, but requires some extended Visio knowledge. A drawback of this approach is that the data for each page will be retrieved every time the slide changes.
See below example:
Hi Bernard, there are some changes coming on the PTP App Visio, which also includes a ‘slideshow’. It is not entirely embedding VDX pages, but instead uses groups on the same page. Nevertheless, it uses the same approach as Sebastiaan described.
Back in 2013, we implemented an 'Easter Egg' in the software to do something like you describe. I see it is still working.
It's not exactly what you described, because it's sliding between the different workspaces instead of between the pages in a Visio file.
Via the url parameter 'AutoSlide=xxx' you can configure an 'Autoslide' between the different workspaces. 'xxx' is the interval in seconds. (more info: see RN 5940)
At each interval tick cube moves to the right workspace.
To stop the 'Auto-Slide', just reconnect without the url parameter.
Not sure if it will be usable for you case, but it comes close, I believe.
Hi Bernard,
As far as I'm aware this is not possible directly for Visio drawings. As a workaround you could use the autoslide URL option, and create several workspaces with each a different page of the drawing.
Thanks Sebartiaan,
Could you please share your visio example here ?