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Powershell and Visio: connectors

Posted by: | June 10, 2010 | No Comment |

Last time we looked at creating a Visio drawing and adding a couple of objects.  This time we will build on that and resize the objects and add a connector.

The Resize method on a shape is ONLY AVAIALBLE ON VISIO 2010

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## create visio document
$visio = New-Object -ComObject Visio.Application
$docs = $visio.Documents

## use basic template
$doc = $docs.Add("Basic Diagram.vst")

## set active page
$pages = $visio.ActiveDocument.Pages
$page = $pages.Item(1)

## Add a stencil
$mysten = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Visio Content\1033\EntApp_M.vss"
$stencil = $visio.Documents.Add($mysten)

## Add objects
$server = $stencil.Masters.Item("Server")
$workstn = $stencil.Masters.Item("Workstation")

$shape1 = $page.Drop($server, 2, 2)
$shape2 = $page.Drop($workstn, 5, 5)

## Resize Objects
$shape1.Resize(1, 5, 70)
$shape2.Resize(1, 5, 70)

## Connect Objects
$connect = $page.Drop($page.Application.ConnectorToolDataObject,0,0)
$start = $connect.CellsU("BeginX").GlueTo($shape1.CellsU("PinX"))
$end = $connect.CellsU("EndX").GlueTo($shape2.CellsU("PinX"))

$doc.SaveAs("c:\scripts\visio\draw1.vsd")
$visio.Quit()

 

As seems to be the case with the other Office applications once you have worked out how to create the document the rest is relatively straightforward.

This is the same code as last time except I use the Resize method to change the size – the parameters denote the top right hand corner (values 0-7 with 0 being middle top and proceeding clockwise), the amount to drag the corner (5) and the units – in this case millimeters

The connection is made using the connectortooldataobject and defining the start and end objects.

 

Thanks to Alan Renouf for his powershell script to document  VMware environments into Visio which forms the basis of these scripts so far.

under: Office 2010, PowerShellV2
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