Re: Ideas for Screen Map in Visio?

[Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "metadata" in
this case. Visio has the capability to add properties
to each object on the diagram, in the form of
name:value pairs. Let's say you have a diagram shape
that represents a list box. You could use the Custom
Properties wizard to add a property named
"Selections," and then under that property label you
could add a list of all the things that can be
selected in that list box.  

Visio will save those diagrams in HTML. It builds a
web site that shows GIFs made from each page in the
Visio file. Each page in the Visio file is a separate
web page. Each object in each of those GIFs can be
clicked on to display the associated properties, and
links between pages in the Visio file (off-page
references) are made into hyperlinks between pages in
the end result web site.


--- Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au> wrote:

> I'm using Visio to make a map of all the screens in
> a software 
> application. The images are scaled down but (just)
> readable, and show 
> the links between screens, tabs within screens,
> links to external 
> applications, and so on.
> 
> This project has parallel development streams so
> there are people and 
> teams working on overlapping parts of the
> application. The map will be 
> used by the developers, designers, system
> architects, BAs, user reps, 
> testers, etc. The plan is to have a printed version
> on several A0 sheets 
> stuck up on the wall of a 'war room', and perhaps an
> online version in 
> Sharepoint.
> 
> For now the map is just a static display of how each
> screen looks in the 
> latest version. It could be nice to have some
> metadata for each screen 
> and perhaps links to each unique version of the
> screen in different 
> releases--e.g. how it looked when it was first added
> in R6, the updated 
> version in R8 and the latest prototype planned for
> R10.
> 
> 
> Do you have any other ideas for useful information
> or functions I could 
> add to the map? Of course I'm asking the people
> who'll be using it, but 
> I wanted to get your suggestions too. I know some of
> you have done 
> 'active diagrams' like this.
> 
> Thanks, Stuart
>
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