Trouble with data and callouts

Thank you for your answer Mark,

With a reconnection of the callout the problem is solved, I already did know
that.
The bad news is that it takes a lot of time to do that on a whole drawing.
How can I be shure that the displayed information in a callout is the
correct information ? And how can I know wich callouts have been reconnected ?
I am not the only person in my company who uses the same drawings, I don't
know what my colleges have changed, ... .
I have hoped there was a refresh button that updates all the callouts in a
drawing, ... or something like that.

I have created a lot of different callouts in Visio 2002, with different
configurations and different logical names, to connect on different shapes,
and stored them as shapes in a stencil. Easy to use for everybody.
On a drawing, we change the configuration of the callout if needed.

Data Graphics is a nice tool, but to do that with Data Graphics is not so
easy I think.
I have been experimenting with Data Graphics this week (text and colors).
I need a solution that works easy in a lot of drawings and by more than one
person.

I can connect different callouts to one shape, I can use only one Data
Graphics to a shape.
I am still searching and experimenting for a good solution.

All the configurations of our clients are created with Visio, so it is a lot
of work te change them all (more than 500 ? drawings and even more pages).

Thanks,
Rik van Overveld


"Mark Nelson [MS]" wrote:

> Hi Rik,
>
> If this diagram was created in Visio 2002, I assume that the callouts are
> Custom Callout shapes taken from the Callouts stencil. You can confirm this
> by right-clicking on the callout shapes to see if there is a Configure
> Callout menu item. If you don't see such a menu item, then the callout
> probably is not designed to automatically update with data. If you have a
> Configure menu item, does clicking on it bring up a dialog? If so, you
> might just need to reconnect the callout to the target shape. If the dialog
> doesn't appear, the Custom Callout add-on may not be functioning properly.
>
> You have a better option in Visio 2007 for displaying data on or near
> shapes. Try using Data Graphics. Right-click on a shape that has data and
> choose Data > Edit Data Graphic. Choose New Item to pick one of the four
> graphical ways to display the data. You might start with Text since you are
> currently working with text callouts. Choose the data field to display and
> hit OK. You can add more items to display additional data fields. You can
> choose Data > Display Data on Shapes to manage the data graphics and apply
> them to additional shapes.
>
> --
> Mark Nelson
> Office Graphics - Visio
> Microsoft Corporation
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> "Rik" <Rik.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C69C5686-555E-46A2-A176-89DF70AFF53B@microsoft.com...
> > When I change data in a shape, de data does not change in the callout.
> > This happens with some datafields, but with other datafields it changes
> > immediatly, sometimes the datafields in the callout are changed !!! And I
> > have to configure the callout again.
> >
> > I am using Visio 2007 (drawings and chapes are created with Visio 2002).
> >
> > Is there a solution for this problem ? Can someone explain this to me ?
> > Thanks,
> > Rik van Overveld
> >
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