Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Adding and Associating Resources

You can add people, space, computers, equipment, and other resources to your space plan without ever linking to a database or spreadsheet. Visio can act as a visual data entry screen where you use shapes to specify the resources you want to track. You can drag shapes from the Resources stencil to add people, equipment, fixtures, and other assets to a floor plan drawing, as Figure 26-18 shows.

Figure 26-18. To add people, equipment, and other assets manually to a space plan, drag a shape from the Resources stencil into a space on your floor plan.

When you use a shape from the Resources stencil, Visio adds it to the ...