About WorkFlow
WorkFlow is a productivity add-in for Microsoft Visio. It was designed after many a sleepless night spent working around Visio's flaws to get a project done in time. Don't get me wrong - Visio is an amazing and extremely powerfull application... but unfortunately, the functionality out-of-the-box leaves a lot to be desired.
After using, and slowly improving upon a very rudimentary version of WorkFlow, I began to realize how much more fun working in Visio was becoming... I could actually think about the concepts I was sketching instead of trying for the hundreth time to get two boxes to align. That's when I realized that this code could be helpful to others, and WorkFlow was born!
How to install
The program installs the following things:
WorkFlow.vss in your "My Documents / My Shapes" folder, which is the WorkFlow application itself. We'll launch this from Visio later on.
WorkFlow folder in "C:/Program FIles" for settings files.
By default Visio will try to block most VBA macros, which is what WorkFlow is built on. Therefore we need to change the following settings:
File > Shapes > My Shapes > WorkFlow
That's it! Just repeat step 3c whenever you want to use WorkFlow in one of your projects. TIP: If you save a project while WorkFlow is active, Visio will automatically launch WorkFlow again for you the next time you open this document.
Limitations
WorkFlow is a work in progress - please treat it as such! Report any bugs or strange behavior you encounter on this website or by using the "report a bug" function.
Table of Content
- Pages
- Page Properties
- Insert Page
- Show/Hide Grids
- Show/Hide Guides
- Show/Hide Rulers
- Zoom: Fit to Page All
- Page Navigation (Next, Previous...)
- Shapes / Comments
- Shape Properties
- Transform into Master
- Deselect All
- Insert Annotation
- Insert Question
- Clean-up Comments
- Surround with Box
- Insert Comment Guides
- Sitemap: Add Child
- Sitemap: Add Sibling