Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out

Creating Pipeline, Valve, and Other Reports

Engineering drawings often accompany reports, such as a bill of materials or parts list. One of the best features in Visio Professional 2007 is its ability to generate reports of all kinds based on the data stored with your drawing. For P&IDs and PFDs in particular, Visio 2007 includes several built-in reports that you can run to create component lists based on the shape data stored with process engineering shapes. If you’re working with one of the other engineering templates, the built-in report definitions probably don’t apply to your diagram type. However, you can create your own report definitions that include the information you want.

For details about reports, see the section titled “Defining ...