Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Labeling, Tagging, and Numbering Components

Each component can include an identifying tag, which can be hidden or customized. In addition, component shapes can include properties that store real-world data, such as a component’s temperature rating or the line size of a pipeline, as Figure 27-25 shows. You can display custom property data on the drawing page as part of a component’s tag or as a custom text label called a callout shape.

Figure 27-25. You can use intelligent callout shapes to label the components in your diagram.

Labeling Shapes with Component Data

When you associate a callout shape with a component, you can specify the value to use as ...