Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Inside Out

Chapter 17. Working with Visio Services

Looking at Visio Services

Designing dashboards

Customizing Visio Services solutions

Summary

HUMANS have always strived to communicate ideas visually, from the prehistoric era through today. For many complex ideas or systems, there is no alternative but to communicate them visually. Microsoft Visio, originally created in the early 1990s, is an advanced diagraming product that allows you to communicate ideas and systems pictorially across multiple domains, such as engineering, IT, processes, and business intelligence (BI).

Using Visio drawings with Microsoft SharePoint is not new. You have been able to share Visio files among team members by placing them in document libraries since SharePoint Team Services and ...