I am trying to import a Visio org chart into AE but it is not working. Other Visio imports do work successfully.
I run the import function and get the popup Importing Visio VDX file..., it disappears and then nothing.
ARIS express 1.0-7.1.0.415608(sr 2009_03)
I am running XP sp2
Java 1.6.0_14
Visio contains corporate org chart so I will not be posting to the files section, please advise individual address I can communicate with in order to resolve.
thanks
donald
Hi Donald.
First: it is a bug, that no message appears. That is right. Development is informed, this is planned to be fixed for the next Service Release for Express.
About your file: you probably imported your file from an older Visio version (or from somewhere else) and exported it then as a VDX, right?
Therefore, the Visio Chart type information is missing, which forces the Visio import to cancel the action. Express needs this information to defined, which model type to create.
What you can do is the following:
- open Visio 2007/2006, create a new Orgchart
- copy all content from your chart to the new orgchart
- export this as a new vdx
- import this into Express
There is one side effect: your original VDX you've send me does not contain connections, but only "lines". These lines can not be transformed into correct connections between objects.
So since the "quality" of the Visio chart is not that great (no connections, no chart type information), unfortunatly, the result is not that fine. You need to reconnect the objects in Express (what you'd need to do in Visio also, if you want to maintain additional objects)
See the screenshot below (I removed the names to hide important information).
Bye,
Frank
Frank,
Thanks for the info.
We had assumed this Visio import works for all Visio versions that make a vdx file.
We are using Visio 2003 and will need to convert many pictures from this format.
Point noted about lines versus connections. Let me see what I can do to help my Visio users understand the difference.
thanks
donald
