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Marc Noon — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:01:47 GMT

I like the new work flow and in Visio. But its really not very functional when you think about it. The main reason is b/c it doesn't have a scripting language to point at the starting point and then walk through the work flow. I would love to see you add support to walk through a work flow using a script or an http request response interface into the Visio. The reason is b/c I want its great to have a diagraming software, but its much better if you can walk through the diagram and then have other programs do there thing based on which step in the Visio diagram you are currently in.

Here is an example: You are in an architectural visio diagram. You have a person icon at the bottom floor as you first walk into the building. Another 3d program interfaces with the visio scripting language and you see the lobby. Maybe it has an arrow and you can look around the room.

Another example... A work flow. I'm in a Python app or a C++ app and I'm debugging the program to display to stack holders for a major contract. I have a bunch of #ifdefr debug. And inside those I have an http interface to my visio program through a cloud web service. This is only an example/idea and one when I first start my program I connect through an http protocol using something like myvisioservice.visio.com/.../objectconnector.... Any way if both my program and visio interface with this visio cloud service I can have a very interesting board room meeting on displaying my app. The other guy using just a plain old visio file diagram is sucking. Because it can't show true interactivity with the program and whats really going on in real time. This has infinite possibilities for Microsoft Visio.

Now image as I'm doing this its got like a view frame that can port to word or powerpoint or directly to video. The point here is that the view frame moves as my pointer moves whether its a person icon walking through a room or a hallway, or a pointer through a workflow or showing images of people in an organization. IMHO this should be available out of the box.

Anyway, thanks for a wonderful product and hope to see you all improve the product in the near future so I can use it in different ways than as just a code generator and diagraming tool.

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