1. Visio Services 2013 Collaboration APIs Chris Hopkins
Senior Consultant - Premier Developer Practice
Microsoft

2. Commenting Client & Dev
6/30/2018
Agenda
Goals & Challenges
Coauthoring
Client & Dev
Commenting Client & Dev
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3. SharePoint 2010 Developer Workshop (Beta2)
Why Collaboration
easily invite people to participate
avoid multiple copies of the diagram
allow synergy during creation
get comments without having to take turns with the diagram
get comments from team members who don’t have Visio
share the completed diagram widely

4. Commenting Client & Dev
6/30/2018
Agenda
Goals & Challenges
Coauthoring
Client & Dev
Commenting Client & Dev
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

5. Coauthoring – User Experience
Allows multiple users to work on diagrams in parallel
Updates available – Last Save Wins!
Visio 2013 Client – Professional SKU only
Requires VSDX file format
Supported…
on premises with SharePoint 2013 Enterprise & Visio Pro
in Office 365 with Visio Pro for Office 365
with diagrams stored in SkyDrive using Visio Pro
FYI - Uses the same Office Document Cache structure as Word and PPT, i.e. the Cobalt protocol

6. Coauthoring – Developer Experience
SharePoint 2010 Developer Workshop (Beta2)
Coauthoring – Developer Experience
For Visio Solution developers, coauthoring could have a significant impact
Complex solutions managing in-memory models
Custom Layouts do not handle new shapes or missing shapes after a merge
Updates Available
Scope captures events that occur during the changes that come from updates
ShapeAdded, SelectionDeleted, CellChanged, etc…
No Query events
I.e. QueryCancelShapeDelete
Undo stack automatically cleared as a result of document merge

7. Coauthoring – Developer Experience
SharePoint 2010 Developer Workshop (Beta2)
Coauthoring – Developer Experience
Event – Document.AfterDocumentMerge ( Document/Documents )
Base – Document before anything was changed by any users
Download – Base + All changes merged except changes from the current user
Working – Base + Only the current user’s changes
Log File – Enabled via the registry, conforms to ULS format
Disable Coauthoring
Per document via the ShapeSheet - TheDoc!NoCoauth = T/F
Per application – Registry
OCX – is already disabled and cannot be enabled

8. Demo
Coauthoring Experience

9. Commenting Client & Dev
6/30/2018
Agenda
Goals & Challenges
Coauthoring
Client & Dev
Commenting Client & Dev
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

10. Commenting – User Experience
Commenting using the client
View and Edit comments in the client
Comments are threaded and sortable w/ presence using Lync
Comments move and duplicate with the shapes
Focus / navigation as you browse comments
Commenting using Visio Services
View and Edit comments via the browser
Comments pane not displayed in web part mode
allows teams to get feedback without the client being required
Commenting stored as part of the Visio file ( VSDX )
No support for VDW or older binary formats

11. Commenting - Developer Experience
Client APIs
Completely manage comments via the client object model / full client experience
Comments from Page
Comments from Shape
Remember - Comments are part of the coauthoring experience
Server APIs ( VGS APIs – readonly )
Dashboard – provide your own comment experience, search, filter, etc.
VSDX file – update server side ( workflow kicks off when there are new comments )
stored in a document library
contains all comments as XML

12. Demo
Commenting APIs

13. New File Format - Developer
Open Packaging Convention (Metro-based)
Package, parts, as well as other Visio Specific stuff
No support in the OpenXML SDK
Persist unknown content
Add your own metro parts…Visio ignores properly formatted parts
Generate diagrams without client automation
Not Supported but possible…
Client – recalculates elements for proper rendering
Server – does not recalculate elements so rendering is incorrect

14. In summary Coauthoring Commenting
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In summary
Coauthoring
VSDX file enabled this functionality
Provided by Cobalt features in SP2010, SP2013, SkyDrive
Control how coauthoring affects your custom solution, Integrate / Manage / Disable
Commenting
VSDX file enables this functionality
Client and Server APIs allow you to manage comments contained within the VSDX file
VSDX file format conforms to OpenXML standards
Query content
Modify content
Generate content

15. Thank You

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