Publish Visio 2010 drawings to a SharePoint site Visual Guide

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Before you begin Contact your SharePoint site administrator if you have any questions. Make sure that you have SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Client Access License (ECAL) and that Visio Graphic Services have been deployed. Enable Visio Graphic Services on the SharePoint site where you want to publish the Visio web drawing. If you do not have Visio Services enabled, refer to the appendices.

1 2 In this guide Save the Visio file as a .vdw file View the drawing on the SharePoint site 2

Save the Visio drawing as a .vdw file In Visio, click File, and then click Save & Send.

Save the Visio drawing as a .vdw file Under Save & Send, click Save to SharePoint.

Save the Visio drawing as a .vdw file Under File Types, click Web Drawing (*.vdw), and then click Save As.

Save the Visio drawing as a .vdw file In the Save As dialog box, … select the SharePoint site, ... enter a file name for the web drawing, … and then click Save.

View the drawing on the SharePoint site On the SharePoint site, point to the Web drawing, click the arrow that appears, and then click View in Web Browser.

View the drawing on the SharePoint site Zoom in/out Refresh the data in the drawing (if the drawing has data) Show the shape information pane Open the drawing in Visio to edit Select other pages of the drawing Close the web drawing

View the drawing on the SharePoint site To view shape data: Open the shape information pane. Select the shape.

For more information “Plan Visio Services deployment” (article) “Visio Graphic Services administration” (article) “Installing and Configuring Visio Services” (blog post) “Save diagrams to SharePoint as Web drawings” (article) “Publishing Diagrams to Visio Services” (blog post) “View Visio diagrams in a SharePoint library” (article) Visio Services overview (article)

Enable Visio Services on SharePoint Server 2010 On the SharePoint site, click Site Actions, and then click Site Settings. Note: You must have Site Administrator [Full Control] privileges in order to enable Visio Graphic Services.

Enable Visio Services on SharePoint Server 2010 On the Site Settings page, under Site Collection Administration, click Site Collection Features.

Enable Visio Services on SharePoint Server 2010 On the Site Collection Administration page, scroll to SharePoint Server Enterprise Site Collection features, and then click Activate.

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