Attempting to import a Visio org chart, express shows it is working then nothing comes into the model

Frank, I have responded to your individual account, thanks

Hi Donald,

would be really fine if you could send me the corresponding files.

After receiving them, I am going to change this reply and remove my eMail adress

Bye,

Frank 

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:

1. open Visio 2007/2006, create a new Orgchart
2. copy all content from your chart to the new orgchart
3. export this as a new vdx
4. 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