Visio Pop Up/Data Presentation

Question

Greetings,

I'm using visio to define several high-level business processes and want to add additional detail without cluttering up the visual nor require the user to click into a sub-process.  Users who access will not be familiar to Visio and I want access to be as simple and friction-less as possible.  So I'm envisioning creating a page in SharePoint that uses the File Viewer web part.  But I'm open if there are other options that are simple and through a browser. 

I'm envisioning a pop up so the user can review the overall process and then through depending where they place their mouse, can view additional details. 

I've reviewed both the ScreenTip and Data Graphics features.  ScreenTips is ok in terms of data entry for content thought would be great if it had more formatting options and perhaps an import capability.  But the roadblock is that ScreenTips are not rendering when the diagram is displayed in SharePoint through a File Viewer web part.  

Data Graphics is the right direction as I have a variety of data from other locations to source in BUT the options for presentation don't allow for a text item that displays just an icon/graphic with the ability for the text to present as a pop up on mouse over.  

So I'm a bit stuck. I'm pretty new to Visio so hoping there may be some SMEs out there with suggestions on how to approach.  

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi Jason,

Thanks for posting the question on our forum.

According to your description, I have tested this, file viewer couldn’t display ScreenTips of Visio files:

1. Create a Visio file>click Insert.
2. Select ScreenTip>then save it to OneDrive.
3. Open the site>add a File Viewer>navigate to the Visio file.
4. It can’t display the ScreenTips.

Given the situation, we suggest you vote for your requirement to UserVoice, which will help better our products and services.

It is the best way to let our related team hear you voice.

To better help you, I have searched this on internet, you can check if the following article can meet your requirement as a workaround:

Do ScreenTips show up when you publish as a web drawing

Thanks for your understanding.

Qing

Answer 2

The Visio Online viewer has a JavaScript API ( see Visio JavaScript API overview ) and this includes the ability to overlay text ( see 

Visio.ShapeView class ). It also has the ability to enable the Shape Info panel that you can switch on if you open your Visio document in SharePoint Online.

You may also want to check out my article Triggering onShapeMouseEnter() and onShapeMouseLeave() JavaScript events in Visio Online