For the Dutch branch of our company, a collection of flowcharts (in Dutch) depicting production procedures was written in Visio 2003. The individual .vsd files are connected by hyperlinks, for example from a shape on Page-1 in file xxx.vsd to Page-1 in file yyy.vsd.  This collection of files and the directory structure is on a shared drive and all users can view the files and use the hyperlinks to jump from file to file as required with Viso Viewer (2010).

As other (English speaking) branches of our company must use the same flowcharts, the text in all files was translated and put on a newly inserted Page-2 of each individual file. All hyperlinks on the English pages were then adapted to point to the relevant Page-2’s.

Using Viso, there is no problem following either the Dutch or English hyperlinks, but the Visio Viewer  users always get to see (the Dutch) Page-1 if this page was active when the file was saved or all users get to see (the English) Page-2 if that was the one active when the file was saved.

It looks like the parameter parsing does not look beyond the filename and my question is, is this a syntax issue and what is the correct syntax in the (sub-) address that should provoke the correct jumps in the hyperlinks using Visio Viewer 2010.

Hello,

I was able to reproduce this issue in Visio Viewer 2003, 2007 and 2010. Reason for this behavior is Visio Viewer doesn’t support sub-address and this behavior is by design. I’ll document the issue again for Visio Viewer 2010 and submit to our product group to bring more visibility to this issue and for future consideration.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Sekar

Hello Sekar,

Ouch, that hurts....From the documentation I presumed it would work, so I translated some 100 files to have an English Page-2. What puzzles me is that it seems to work in Viewer within the same file if one leaves out the address and only specifies the sub-address, so there the parsing works (more or less).

It does not "look" like a very principal issue to repair, but I might be wrong. It would add useful functionality though.

Thanks for the Quick response,

Ted

You may want to check out http://www.bvisual.net/Products/MultiLanguageText.aspx

I am currently working on a new version, so would appreciate any input.

Hello David,

Thanks for your reaction, I looked into it and for some applications this may be a solution. The outcome relies on the quality  of the translator and I'm afraid that still lets us down too much.

However, the translation is not the issue in our case, it is the sub-adressing in the Hyperlinks in Visio Viewer that  is not working...

I hope the Viewer-developers will take notice and repair this omission.

Regards,

Ted

Hi Sekar,

Is there any further work on this issue?   I really need to be able to use Visio Viewer with hyperlinks and secondary addresses.  Any progress?

Thanks

John