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Thuan Ng
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Jun 13, 2017

Visio Process Repository Tag Automated Extraction

Hi everyone,


I have realized that keywords in Tags property on a Visio file can be automatically extracted to the Keywords column in Process Diagram template (part of Visio Process Repository template when creating a new SharePoint Online site collection). That looks wonderful. However this feature works with only VSD file. A client of mine is asking if VSDX file does not work by default.

 

Has anyone ever got such a case? If VSDX file is not supported by default, chances are I'd have to access programmatically to Tags property with available Office Interoperability API then update to Keywords columm. That would be a quite huge effort I think so.

Your recommendation would be greatly appreciated.

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    Thuan Ng
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 26, 2017

    I think I'd need to bring back to this topic about reading new Visio format (.vsdx) in SharePoint Online. Driving the customer to manually key in tag in the Keyword field in Process Diagram would be greatly ideal but this does not what we expect easily in life. In that matter, I have to find a way to programmatically read Visio VSDX file property

     

    During my research that Microsoft published a JS API for Visio (https://dev.office.com/reference/add-ins/visio/visio-javascript-reference-overview) but it is dedicated for Visio Online which might not be the approach in my case. Perhaps I'd need to trigger C# from a 3rd party cloud serverless in case there is no direct JS API support for Visio file.

     

    If anyone has ever done such a case (without using serverless cloud service), please share. Your recommendation would be greatly appreciated.

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