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12. What Design? Visio Shapes Data Graphics Custom Shapes Images Clipart CAD SVG … What Data? SharePoint Excel SQL …

13. Text Callouts Icon Sets Data Bars Color By Value

18. Combine Data Graphic ItemsUse Formulas to calculate properties Link a record to multiple shapes Hyperlink to detail pages

20. .NET OLEDB ODBC SP Lists Excel Services + BCS Custom

21. Refreshed using current user credentials User needs access to the diagram and workbook locations Must reside in a document library No network shares VSDX and XLSX on the same farm XLSX format, no old XLS formats Link and Refresh from Sheets / Tables Named Ranges / Custom Range Refreshed using OLEDB driver Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12…

24. SharePoint Lists are an easy yet powerful data source Same farm as the Visio diagram User needs read access to the list Get your data in a list and VGS can refresh from it Manual Edit SharePoint Workflow Timer Job Web Service PowerShell Script Applications or Services

25. BCS allows you to configure external content types for connecting to External SQL DBs SQL On Premises SQL Azure WCF Services Custom.NET providers External Lists are fully supported in Visio 2013 BCS add-in for 2010

26. Support for SQL Server 7.0 –> 2012 + SQL Azure No Analysis Services or Reporting Services at least not directly Tables & Views provided via Visio Data Linking dialog Can we refresh from Stored Procedures? Yes! Not available in the Visio client UI for the SQL data source option Configure BCS to execute the stored procedure – connect Visio via External List

27. Server Code. NET assembly deployed to the GAC and registered as a Trusted Data Provider for the Visio Services service application Implements AddonDataHandler Returns a.NET DataSet object to Visio Services Client Code Create and maintain the record set Set the ConnectionString so Visio Services knows to call your data provider Example: Visio add-in for System Center 2012 Operations Manager

33. PowerView is not a data source but a visualization tool for PowerPivot Data connect Visio diagrams to the pivot tables in PowerPivot Incorporate PowerView in a Mashup with Visio Services connected to the same data source

34. System Center contains a wealth of information Visio add-in for System Center 2012 Operations Manager BCS PowerShell Solution code

35. SAP Dynamics Web Services XML, JSON BCS PowerShell Solution code

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