We are using children shapes to populate services from under a view.  We are using a custom property on the services set to “Mask“.  The intent was to use a ChildrenFilter to not show if property = Mask.  We found that the ChildrenFilter has to be = to and could not use != to.

We then tried setting the ChildrenFilter Property=”” and other regex blank identifiers (^(?i).*$).  We could not find any which worked with Visio and Cube.

Is there a way to use a Visio ChildrenFilter | Property:myproperty=[no property entry]?

As a work around we ended up populating the myproperty with data (active) for all the services and using

ChildrenFilter|Property:myproperty=^((?!Mask).)*$ which displays all services except those with myproperty=Mask.

Or goal was to do this without having to set the services property values except when masked.