Zane Freame, Product Manager
Following on from my earlier post,
Visio Services in SharePoint 2010, I wanted to delve a little deeper into how this new Shared Service works. Microsoft have been working hard to create a great framework for creating your own data driven visualisation in SharePoint. Here's a high level look at how they're helping you do it.
Diagrams can be published directly to SharePoint document libraries and either opened in the browser directly from the file, or published in full fidelity using a Visio Web Access web part. Both methods use Silverlight to render the diagram, and for those who don't have Silverlight, the diagrams can be published as a PNG image minus a few interactive features.
According to the guys from Microsoft, the published diagrams are browser agnostic and will work in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari to name a few. Data can be refreshed manually or automatically with a variety of options in the web part to customise what users can see and do.
Visio Services for SharePoint 2010 supports a variety of data sources including:
- SQL (ODC)
- Excel workbooks (via Excel Services)
- SharePoint Lists
- OLEDB
- ODBC
- Custom (not sure what this is yet, but I'm sure I'll find out soon!)
The features don't end there either. I haven't had a chance to build my own (yet!) but here are just a few of the features and tools that you can expect to see in the final product.
- Ability to pull data from multiple data sources on the same diagram
- Zoom in/out functionality
- Automatic refresh of data
- JavaScript Mash-up API
- Support for web part connections
One disclaimer... although you can still create diagrams in Microsoft Visio 2007, in order to publish them to SharePoint 2010, you will need Microsoft Visio 2010 installed on the client computer. Of course, users just viewing the diagrams in SharePoint will not require Visio installed.
For more information about Visio 2010 visit the official Visio Blog on MSDN -
Visio Insights.
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